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- From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
- Subject: Re: PDP Emulators and Porting Tools
- Message-ID: <20JAN199319315659@rover.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <C13Kx1.7FD@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1993Jan20.082022.11882@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.164615.524@hsh.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:31:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.164615.524@hsh.com>, lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann) writes...
- >In article <1993Jan20.082022.11882@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter) writes:
- >> Jeremy Ruston (jerus@ibmpcug.co.uk) wrote:
- >> : Does anyone know of any emulaters running on DOS, Unix or Windows NT (or
- >> : indeed anything) which emulate the PDP-11? In particular, running RSTS.
- >>
- >> I just LOVE the thought of proposing replacing our 12.5 year old PDP
- >> 11 running RSTS with a PC.... :-)
- >> ...
- >Why do you LOVE the thought of it (Or is that sarcasm I detected instead of
- >exuberance? :-)
- >
- >We still haven't come up with any viable software alternative to our PDP's
- >running RSTS (V10.1) on a PC. (Viable = doesn't cost a fortune)
-
- Well, to emulate a PDP-11, the PC would have to emulate a good
- multi-tasking system.... fat chance. And it would probably take
- an 8-meg 386 to get any kind of response. Then too you have to
- cluge around only having 8/16 possible interrupts....
-
- However, the people that did TSX were talking about running their
- new stuff on a xxx86?
-
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