Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!rickr
From: rickr@virtech.uucp (Rick Rodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix ... for PDP-11
Message-ID: <1990May28.015301.7341@virtech.uucp>
Date: 28 May 90 01:53:01 GMT
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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I guess I am unable to get a message to Holland MUG, since the system
I am using doesn't understand addresses with @'s in them.  (Someone ought
to document why this network uses two different kinds of addresses...)

At any rate, I notice that the MUG library includes some PDP-11 stuff.
I also note in the discussion about bringing up Minix on the 6502 that
there have been many comments about the PDP-11.

I have a PDP-11/73 which is running RSX-11M.  A while back, I asked if
there was any available Unix for the machine.  To make a long story short,
there isn't.  Unix on the PDP-11 apparently died out with the Unibus.
The 11/73 is too new (1985) and the only OSs available are RSX-11M and
RT-11.

And anyhow, I'm just a poor hobbyist who rescued the pitiful little thing
from being sent to the dump.

But now I'm curious about whether Minix could run on it...  Does anyone
know?

As for the Atari 8-bit:  I have Abacus C for the C-64 here...:-}
Seriously, don't forget that the 6502 has a fixed, 256-byte stack at
0100 hex.  I suspect that swapping the CPU with a 65816 (or the 8-bit
equivalent) might overcome that problem.

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