Minix

[Huw Davies]

On 18/11/2005, at 2:31 AM, woodelf wrote:

> Allison wrote:
>
>> Minix on PDP11, Not that I know of.  It would be interesting.
>>
>>
> Well  I think Minix #1,  would be easy to port, but why? You got  
> real unix.

Because you can :-)

Don't forget XINU which was designed to run on PDP-11s.

> It just proves how effective code on the 11 could be. Too bad you  
> can't buy
> a pdp-11 cpu chip for $2.49 like a 8088. I take it is still rather  
> pricy to put together
> a basic 11. Any body know how much?

I haven't looked, but I would have thought that you could buy  
something like a PDP-11/03 for not a lot of money (assuming that the  
11/03 is what I think it is - small Qbus system, yes?)

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