19 Apr
2004
19 Apr
'04
10:27 a.m.
Ashley Carder <wacarder(a)usit.net> wrote:
I want a real unibus PDP-11 badly so I can move a copy
of my reincarnated college
11/40 RSTS/E environment off Bob Supnik's simulator and onto some real hardware.
It seems like the guys that have all the good stuff already just keep getting more
while the latecomers sit here with the simulator running the old stuff on a PC via
Telnet.
The proper way to make a real PDP-11 (or VAX or any other Classic computer)
available to everyone who wants one is put them back in FULL PRODUCTION. Not
just hobby, but real full production and commercial sales (for a reasonable
commercial price).
I'm working on a new VAX chip and will soon be putting VAXen in full production.
I can't do the same for PDP-11 because it just isn't my area of expertise, but
my close fried, comrade and associate Stacy Minkin is more on the PDP-11 side
and wants to build a new PDP-11 using FPGA technology just as much as I want to
do it for the VAX.
If you want new PDP-11s, E-mail him at stacy(a)ivan.Harhan.ORG and tell him that
you want to buy a PDP-11 and would be willing to pay a fair commercial price and
possibly finance the NRE cost. Stacy is a real engineer with a vision just as
grand as mine, so given enough people willing to buy this stuff (for real,
commercially, just like in The Days when it was new), he and I can build The
Real Thing: real microcoded CPU, honest-to-Daemon UNIBUS, etc., not a poor
man's emulator.
MS (who has just returned from a full weekend conference and is catching up
with E-mail)