What hardware runs 2BSD (was Re: For sale 128K Core RAM Industrial PDP 11/40 Massbus System)

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 10:16:48 CDT 2016


On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:11 AM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
> On 2016-10-31 08:48, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
>> One of the great recent updates was backporting the MSCP driver from
>> 2.11 to 2.9.  That opens up KDF11 MicroPDP-11s to running 2.9 with an
>> RQDX3.  Prior to that availability, one needed an RLV12 or other Qbus
>> disk controller for that platform.
>
> I missed that :(

About 15 years ago, Jonathan Engdahl backported the MSCP driver to 2.9BSD...

> more details?

First hit:

  http://home.windstream.net/engdahl/2_9bsd-mscp.htm

-ethan


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