Hi Bill
you may try a current version of the simh emulator (simh 3.5.-2) which
is available from simh.trailing-edge.com. I had no problems with Ultrix
3.1, Unix V6/V7 etc.. I couldn't find xenix for pdpd-11 (did I miss that
in the archives?). There is Venix, but it's for the PRO-350/380, which
is not a "normal" PDP-11.
As for the OS Tim Berners-Lee used for his first Browser, I believe that
it was made on a Norsk Data Technostation. There is very few information
available on these machines, and I don't think there is an emulator for
them. There are only a few webpages mentioning it at all: see
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~toresbe/nd/history.html for example (it has a
picture of the machine, note the funny terminal with the two LCD's in
addition to the monitor). I recently donated my Technostation to a
computer museum...
regards
--rp
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:32:27 -0400
> From: "Bill Cunningham" <billcu1(a)verizon.net>
> Subject: Bob's emulator and ultrix
> To: <wkt(a)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. Is there anything like this in
> the archive? A VAX emulator and VMS OS?
>
> Bill
On Apr 18, 2006, at 9:00 PM, pups-request(a)minnie.tuhs.org wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Cunningham <billcu1(a)verizon.net>
> -----
>
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:32:27 -0400
> From: "Bill Cunningham" <billcu1(a)verizon.net>
> Subject: Bob's emulator and ultrix
> To: <wkt(a)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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"You are not expected to understand this."
>
> By the way, are there releases of Xenix that run on PDP-hardware?
> I've only ever heard of PC (8086+)-based ones.
I believe there was a version of Xenix for the PDP-11 but Xenix is
based on SYSIII which I understand is not covered by the ancient Unix
license. Of course, if it is, I would love a copy of SYSIII. :-)
bill
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>> By the way, are there releases of Xenix that run on PDP-hardware?
>> I've only ever heard of PC (8086+)-based ones.
>
> There were. On 23 March 2002 Martin Crehan started a thread on this
> list, including a cite to this Slashdot posting: http://slashdot.org/
> comments.pl?sid=29920&cid=3213453
>
> I would link to the thread, but the search seems broken (http://
> minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/pups.cgi)
>
> Apart from the PDP-11 version mentioned there, I am also aware of the
> Lisa XENIX port (68K).
And also a8K version for the Tandy 16/6000 series. I still have
it, but don't use it anymore. It probably wouldn't even boot at
this point.
bill
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