25 Jun
2002
25 Jun
'02
1:05 p.m.
> SOL-11 - A Small Language and OS for the PDP-11
>
> SOL is a small, non-standard, stand-alone FORTH kernel containing
> everything that is required to edit, store, recall, compile, and run
> programs on PDP-11 microcomputers. It is intended for a minimum
> operating system and programming environment. The FORTH language offers
> full access to the complete hardware. Device drivers for the console and
> some block devices are included.
This is so cool!
> Supported Hardware
>
> * PDP-11 CPU with EIS (required)
> * 8K to 28K words of memory
Dang, the EIS requirement sucks! This would be perfect for PDP-11/03's and
SBC-11/21's. Unfortunatly the /03 needs the KEV11 option, and the SBC-11/21
is just plain out of luck.
Presumably it ignores the MMU (but doesn't object
if one is present, as
few machines have EIS but no MMU).
It only needs one of the drives.
I just built it and booted the RL02 image on SIMH. It looks pretty cool, of
course I don't know FORTH, so can't actually do anything....
I suspect the TU58 option means that it's possible to run this on a PDP-11
that doesn't have any drives, but has two SLU's, just run a TU58 emulator on
a PC.
* console terminal (preferrably VT100)
* RX01/RX02 floppy disk drives
* RL02 disk drive
* TU58 tape drive
I assume it needs the CPU, RAM, console and at least one of the mass
storage devices. It can't need _all_ the drives, surely? The Sources
SOL is written in PDP-11 assembly language and FORTH. The BTN11
assembler (version 0.9 or later) is required to compile the assembly
part of SOL.
40187 2001-07-17 sol-11.tar.gz version 0.4
Sounds like just what I need (given that I have all of the supported
hardware!). I will take a look. Thanks....