[TUHS] What UNIX on a PDP-11/34 ?
Ian King
iking at killthewabbit.org
Thu Nov 10 09:56:47 AEST 2005
Oh bugger, I'd forgotten about device drivers... my bad.
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From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org]
On Behalf Of Carl Lowenstein
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:48 AM
To: tuhs at tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] What UNIX on a PDP-11/34 ?
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-----
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> 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
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenst at ucsd.edu
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