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- Subject: Re: UNIX for 18-bit pdp-11:s...
- Message-ID: <9209130203.AA63508@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- From: Chris Petrilli <petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 21:03:15 -0600
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- In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sun, 13 Sep 92 02:30:41 T.)
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- >>>>> On Sun, 13 Sep 92 2:30:41 MET DST, Johnny Billquist <bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se> said:
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- John> Now, I personally think RSX is much more fun than UNIX, but I know
- John> I have some UNIX lookalike on an RM02 pack. I think it is Venix,
- John> but I'm not totally sure. This pack was probably used on an 11/60,
- John> which means it should work fine on an 11/34 as well.
- John> I also know of a system called Idris, which was a Unix lookalike,
- John> but usable on an 18-bitter. I might have V7 lying on a pack.
- John> I'm not really sure about any of this, but if people are interested,
- John> I could look into it a little more.
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- On anything less than a high-end PDP (ie. 11/70, 11/84, etc..) I think
- RSX is a much better route. Even RSTS would be a better choice than
- Unix. I have payed with various Unix implementations on the 22bit
- machines, and while usable, I just don't think that it's going to cut
- it for most people. I guess working on a 50+MIPS RS/6000 spoils me,
- but I still enjoy playing with older machines. However, the problems
- come about in that V7 and early BSD (pre 4.2) are not well supported
- any more by PD code, much less good compilers.
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- My experience with the C compiler that is on the PDP is pretty bad.
- Last I recall, not only does it have quite a few bugs but it also
- generates pretty bad code. I don't want to discourage anyone, just
- tell them what they are getting themselves into.
-
- Chris
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