6 Feb
2012
6 Feb
'12
6:25 p.m.
On 2/6/2012 7:00 PM, David Griffith wrote:
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Eric Smith wrote:
No No No ... that was T-nix followed later
with U when the programers could
club meat, build fire and recite most of the Alphabet*.
You seem to have a few 6502 unix style systems hacked together on the web.
Ray Arachelian wrote:
(Waiting for the guys that ran real UNIX on a
PDP-8 to show up and
say they rode T-Rex's to school.)
No, the PDP-8 Unix is one of the modern
ones. Only the guys that ran
really early Unix rode T-Rexes. So, does anyone have a record for oldest or weakest
computer running
Unix? The Z80 definitely did it. Maybe the 8080 could. I don't think the
PDP-8 could. I've been trying to figure out if the PDP-8 could handle C,
and the answers I get range from "I don't know" to "Definitely
not".
Something I'd really like to see is a Z-machine running on the PDP-8.
That came up a few years ago, the pdp8 does not have ample memory to handle
Z-code.
Ben.
* No, not in Octal.