Forth for PDP-11

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Wed Jun 26 23:25:14 2002

> 2 3 + .
>
> That's a total of 8 keys to press --
> <two><space><three><space><plus><space><period><return>
>
> You should get
> 5 OK
> on the terminal (or something like that, with a 5 in it).

Unfortunatly it results in:

2 3 + . .?

I just realized that there is documentation included, it's in the 'sol.sd',
so I'm going to have to pour through it. I get the distinct impression that
it's not working the way it should, so I need to see if I've installed it
incorrectly (the first look through makes it look like it's installed
correctly).

> > I suspect the TU58 option means that it's possible to run this on a PDP-11
> > that doesn't have any drives, but has two SLU's, just run a TU58 emulator on
> > a PC.
>
> Almost certainly yes. Of course eccentrics like me would probably _want_
> to try the real TU58 :-)

If it supported the 11/03 or Falcon, I'd consider trying it with real
TU58's. However, in looking at the docs now that I've finally found them I
suspect that TU58's are intended to only be for installing on a disk.

> Will an old version of Linux do? Or should I finally try to get Release 7
> running on the 11/45 (or BSD on the 11/44)? I don't have time to play

Unless you need a newer version of gcc than you have installed, an old
version of Linux should work (I assume by old you're talking 1.x). I don't
know if this is something that could be built on a PDP-11 running UNIX.

                        Zane
Received on Wed Jun 26 2002 - 23:25:14 BST