so, can you run UNIX on a PDP11/03 or not? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 Jan 2002

Actually VMS was ok but VMS as everyone knows is also
chock full of utilities and tools... many of which would remain
as base PDP11 code (coded as RSX-11 compatable) for a
while.  I think V2.mumble . Some would be recoded as VAX
native and live another version.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: William Donzelli &lt;aw288(a)osfn.org&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: so, can you run UNIX on a PDP11/03 or not?

...
     The only use
of the vax11's pdp11 compatibility mode that I've ever
 heard of was to run RSX-11 binaries under VMS. 
I think VMS 1.0 used it because it was not really ready to ship (what a
suprise). The RCS VAXgeek said that some old PDP-11 code was
kludged in with a big hammer (and the compatibilty mode) to get the early
...
 VMS to work. The kludges were dropped shortly
afterwards.

William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org 