[TUHS] What UNIX on a PDP-11/34 ?

[Carl Lowenstein]

On 11/9/05, Ian King <iking at killthewabbit.org> wrote:
> Weirdness - my original reply to your mail never showed up....
>
> First of all, YES to v6!  That's what I have on my 11/34, with 192k of
> MOS memory and two RK05 drives.  You can regen the whole system with no
> problem.  I'm only running the console on it, but in multiuser mode.
>
> One of the images on the PUPS site is a v6 distribution tape.  But even
> if you don't have a tape drive, it seems you could build a disk image on
> an emulator, then stream that over to your RL with vtserver.  I've had
> some success doing this with other machines (fortunately, the archives
> contained RK05 images and I have RKs).  -- Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org]
> On Behalf Of asbesto
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:17 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TUHS] What UNIX on a PDP-11/34 ?
>
>
> Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:35:08AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
> > > here at freaknet medialab we made some images of our
> > > RL02 disk packs with RT-11 and GAMMA-11 software
> > > (specific for a Nuclear Camera, this pdp-11 was used
> > > for medical exams) :)
>
> > > what can we install? any hint ?
> > I had Ultrix-11 on ours, using 2 RK05 drives. But only briefly, as
>
> but, can we install a RK05 image into an RL02 drive ? :%
>
> or, maybe a V6 ?

6th Edition Unix predates RL02 drives by a few years.  I would try for
DEC's V7m.

    carl
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