[COFF] [TUHS] Will pdp 11/04 run unix?

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Sat Aug 1 05:40:12 AEST 2020


Very possible, I never saw the insides of theirs.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 3:38 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> Clem Cole wrote:
> > Anyway, I'm pretty sure the [XGP] copies at Stanford (Jan '73), and
> > MIT (was the 3rd in the series and a little later) also used 11/20s or
> > maybe 11/15's which was the OEM version of the 20 as it was March '72
> > when the CMU XGP was first stood up.
>
> Thank you.  That's one more "vote" in favour of 11/20.  In which case
> the TV-11 ought to be an 11/10 which was our original guess.  I don't
> think it matters to the software; it should run just as well on either
> model.
>
> I have seen MIT files which describe the Stanford hardware, so it seems
> their inspiration came from there.  The earliest timestamp is from
> February 1973.
>
> I got the impression the Stanford XGP had a PDP-6/10 IO bus interface
> rather than going through a PDP-11.  I'm CC'ing Bruce Baumgart.
>
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