PDP 11-23 questions

I might be able to help you a little bit on this. In the late 1970s and early 1980s a number of Canadian universities built V6 systems for PDP 11/23 based systems. These systems were relatively cheap and were great for teaching and some research. At the University of Toronto we build at least three systems for the undergraduate database course, and when I moved to McMaster University I built two for project courses. With some modifications to the kernel an 11/23 could support 6 or 7 students working on programming projects. I suspect the UBC system that you picked up served a similar purpose. -- Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca McCalla Professor (780) 492-4584 Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX) University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada