[pups] Bob's emulator and ultrix

[Milo Velimirovic]

On Apr 18, 2006, at 9:00 PM, pups-request at minnie.tuhs.org wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Cunningham <billcu1 at verizon.net>  
> -----
>
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:32:27 -0400
> From: "Bill Cunningham" <billcu1 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Bob's emulator and ultrix
> To: <wkt at tuhs.org>
>
> I can't get the sim 2.3d to boot ultrix 3.1 or xenix or anyother  
> boot tapes
> in the uhs's archive. I have compiled the pdp11 emulator with  
> gcc-3.4.6. I
> am also interested in the OS Tim Berners-Lee used to write his first
> browser. VMS on a VAX machine I have read.

Doubtful. Everything I have read leads me to believe that Tim Berners- 
Lee wrote the first web browser on using a NeXT cube running an early  
version (2.x or earlier) of the NEXTSTEP operating system.

> Is there anything like this in
> the archive? A VAX emulator and VMS OS?
>
> Bill
> ----- End forwarded message -----

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