Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!apple!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!grosz.wpd.sgi.com!sik From: sik@grosz.wpd.sgi.com (Seth Katz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Re: Unix (or flavor thereof) for PDP 11/23 (18 bit backplane) Message-ID: <5181@odin.SGI.COM> Date: 13 Mar 90 06:57:48 GMT References: Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: sik@wpd.sgi.com Organization: SGI Lines: 25 In article , uahfxg01@ASNUAH.ASN.NET ("FRANK GOSSETT") writes: > Does anyone know of a version of Unix that will run on a PDP 11/23 > with 256 RAM and 2 RLO2s. I've received this machine with an old RT11 > version on it and don't feel up to learning this OS. I used to work for a company know for its PC unixes that ported a version 7-like unix with berkeley utilities to the decpro 350. I was lead to understand that the decpro 350 was very close to the pdp 11/23 (an assumption that is reenforced by seeing this posting in the dec micros group). I don't know if they ever sold it or not, but it worked fine for me. If your RL02 packs aren't brand new (and handled carefully all their little lives) I suspect you won't get far with them. If you've never used such an animal before, have a look at the little bar on the top of the pack. If they do work, you might still be better off dumping them... The 20 megs you have won't go far for the trouble they'll cause. There are a surprising number of used equipment companies that are interested in paying cash money for old dec stuff, even 11/23's and RL02 packs. Think about it. But don't listen to those whiners who complain about energy use. A pdp is a friend indeed in the winter.