[TUHS] Unix on PDP8?

Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
Thu Nov 30 08:28:12 AEST 2017


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 09:11:19AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> C itself is going to be difficult on the PDP-8.

Yes, as noted on this page: http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/C/C.php

> You could start with (an early) Minix, I guess; we ran it on a PDT (I 
> think) with 2 x RX-05 floppies.  Slow, but it worked, sort of.

You mean Xinu, perhaps? Minix was always an 80x86 and 680x0 system.

There is also xv6: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2017/xv6.html
with a small monolithic kernel. I've added a BSD library and runtime
to the kernel here: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/xv6-freebsd

Of course, you could always go retro and try Mini Unix :)

Cheers, Warren



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