Other PDP11 simulators

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat Oct 2 10:04:04 2004

On Oct 1, 2004, at 7:18 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

> Ron Hudson wrote:
>> Are there any PDP11 simulators that run "right down on the iron" of a
>> PC?
>> I know there are PDP11 cards that can be put in PCs, that's not what
>> I am looking
>> for.
>
> What do you mean "right down on the iron"? You couldn't run PDP-11
> binaries on i386 hardware, if that's what you mean. Do you mean
> something that is effectively a self-contained operating system, that
> will boot up and just be a PDP-11 emulator?

The latter, or perhaps it runs from DOS but it takes over all the
ports, both serial ports would support terminals, and the parallel port
would support a printer. Actually it would probably have to run over
some OS so that it could emulate hard drives as files, since the normal
PDP-11 hard drive was much smaller than todays 60gb monster.


>
> Gordon.
>
Received on Sat Oct 02 2004 - 10:04:04 BST