PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

[Ethan Dicks]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:53 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 8:47 AM Ethan Dicks via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> One of the challenges I had then was my largest PDP-11 at home was a
>> 11/24 with 2MB of RAM.
>
> I'm wondering how 2.9BSD was with ~1MB of RAM, but say ~40MB of disk. I have a machine I play with from time to time that's x86 + 892MB of RAM + 40MB disk and was wondering if it would be worth it to try to adjust the V7ish port I kinda sorta have to it to work with 2.9BSD...

As I recall, as a single-user machine, 2MB was no problem.  Decently
responsive.  The only time I ever made the machine wheeze was when
recompiling the kernel.  Nothing else I did was fat enough to really
tax it.

-ethan