70's computers

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Oct 23 16:12:52 CDT 2018



> On Oct 23, 2018, at 5:07 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> ...
> The PDP 11 is nice machine, but I am looking  for simpler designs
> where 16K words is a valid memory size for a OS and small single user software.

16k words (or even 8k words) is a fine memory size for a single user OS on PDP11.  RT-11 runs fine in that, at least the older versions.  I used to run RT-11 on an 8kW machine with an RC11 system disk.   DOS-11 also fits in that, if you're masochistic enough to want to try that OS.

	paul



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