[TUHS] How to use V5 UNIX?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu May 6 04:08:23 AEST 2021


    > From: Saif Resun

    > I want to use the 5th edition UNIX operating system.
    > ...
    > I want to use it using the SimH emulator but there's no guide about
    > how to install it or use it. 

As they say,'Google is your friend':

  https://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_Unix_v5_in_SIMH

Also, V6 Unix is very similar to V5 (the main difference, IIRC, is that V6
supports so-called 'Split I/D space' on the PDP-11) so anything for V6 will
mostly apply to V5:

  https://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_UNIX_v6_in_SIMH
  https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_UNIX_v6_(PDP-11)_on_SIMH
  https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_UNIX_Sixth_Edition_on_Ersatz-11

Have fun!

	Noel


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