I did run 2.9bsd on this machine and I like it better, but the distro struggles to fit on (4) rl02s and then can't recompile itself due to lack of space.

The System III idea is kind of homage to my Solaris years and for bragging rights to my teenage friends who know nothing but Linux (and I kinda feel (as a stretch) like Linux is in the System III line).  That said, I'd was originally going for System V, but when I recompiled it under the emulator, I found out that it requires separate I&D, so the 11/34 is out; System III is next closest.  Eventually I'll be doing this same exercise on mt split 11/45 and then have some serious bragging rights :)

I sure hope there's a pdp11 sdcard / usb disk solution someday like they did for the Commodore 64 - I could even pay a little for it.  And for some clever kernel optimizing hack that'll let me run a tcp/ip stack on my poor little-address-space 11/45 so I can telnet to it with 2.11bsd.

I'm totally in the market for an Able Enable board too!  Out of curiosity, is it totally out of the question to just find the prints and do a production run?  I mean if we got 100 people in at a hundred each, wouldn't that cover it?  There's enough interest in vintage now that that headcount could realistically happen.

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:21 PM Clem cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
Should be pretty easy particularly since the rl0x is supported in the BSD environment

That said why mess with PWB 3.0 on an 11?   BSD 2.9 will be more interesting.  Also if you have a 40 class system like the 34 of 34A see if you can find an Able Enable board.  The memory will make a huge difference.

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.

> On Oct 23, 2018, at 10:59 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>   Was wanting to put together a fully functional (meaning able to load the whole distro and recompile itself) and "reliable" System III machine made of real, albeit not terribly sexy parts.  I have (4) working rl02 drives and an 11/34, so I feel like there's a chance it could work.  I'll have to build it on the emulator, of course, then vtserver it over to the real hw in chunks. 
>
> But the blocker is that System III only supports rl01, not rl02, which kills the 'full distro' prospect.
>
> Would anyone know if it's trivial to modify the source for the rl01 driver to just add double the blocks, thereby supporting rl02?  Or am I wildly underestimating the task at hand?  Has this been done before?  Tips?
>
> thx
> jake