Other PDP11 simulators

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Ron Hudson wrote:

>> and simh would run in single-user mode.  This would, of course, be silly.
> 
> 
> why silly? if it would work.
> 

Because none of the userspace daemons would be running.  Saying 
"init=/bin/sh" is a great way to get the root filesystem and a command 
prompt and *nothing* else - the init scripts are never run, so no other 
filesystems are mounted, no kernel modules are loaded, nothing like 
that.  The kernel loads, brings the console up to a known state, and 
then forks off to the shell.  Normally, of course, it would fork init, 
which would then read inittab and then the startup scripts.

Gordon.