2 Oct
2004
2 Oct
'04
3:56 a.m.
On Oct 2, 2004, at 4:55 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
You *could* write one that just booted up and became a PDP-11
emulator. It would be quite a lot of work - serial ports are easy to
program, and you could get away with BIOS calls for disk handling
maybe, but you could basically forget about any kind of network
support. Far simpler to use one of the free Unixes. If you were
really, really concerned about not letting anything else run on the
machine, you could say something at a Linux kernel boot prompt like:
boot: linux init=/usr/bin/simh
and simh would run in single-user mode. This would, of course, be
silly.
why silly? if it would work.
Are there
any PDP11 simulators that run "right down on the iron" of
a PC?
As far as I know, there isn't anything that runs directly on the PC
hardware, they all require an OS. However, John Wilson mentioned
something this week on the PDP-11 mailing list that sounds like he's
planning on running directly on the PC HW in a future version.
Gordon.