Minix - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Nov 2005

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Subject: Re: Minix
   From: Huw Davies <huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au>
   Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:10:36 +1100
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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On 18/11/2005, at 2:31 AM, woodelf wrote:

  Allison wrote:

  Minix on PDP11, Not that I know of.  It would be
interesting.

  Well  I think Minix #1,  would be easy to port, but why? You got  
 real unix. 
Because you can :-) 
Exactly!

...
 Don't forget XINU which was designed to run on
PDP-11s.

  It just proves how effective code on the 11 could
be. Too bad you  
 can't buy
 a pdp-11 cpu chip for $2.49 like a 8088. I take it is still rather  
 pricy to put together
 a basic 11. Any body know how much? 
I haven't looked, but I would have thought that you could buy  
something like a PDP-11/03 for not a lot of money (assuming that the  
11/03 is what I think it is - small Qbus system, yes?)

Huw Davies           | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au 
Yes, there is also 11/2 and 11/23 than usualy can be found cheap.
At the single board level there is the 11/21 falcon card.
If one wishes to build from chip level defunct VT240/241, HSC50,
RQDXn controllers and a few other DEC bits can supply a T-11 chip
(base PDP11 on a chip).

Allison