ooh, there's an idea for new project...
I also have a soft spot for the old PDP11 architecture and aesthetics, and
like the idea of an emulator sitting behind an 11/70 front panel, but I
havn't been able to decide what software to run on it...
Unix ran quite nicely on an 11/70 back in the late 70
On 10/8/18, Digby R.S. Tarvin wrote:
>
> So the question is... is plan9 still lean and mean enough to fit onto a
> machine with a 64K address space? Doing a port would certainly provide
> plenty of opportunity to tinker with the lights and switches on front
> panel, and if it the port was initiall
Let's take a step back here, and stop treating jerks like Kurt (or me,
for that matter) the way they treat the ideas they perceive to be
hare-brained.
It's weird that with all the time in the world to "think before
posting", knee-jerk reactions still find their way to a mailing list
like this one
A native Inferno port would certainly be a lot easier, but I think you
might be a bit pessimistic about would can fit into a 64K address space
machine. The 11/70 certainly managed to run a very respectable V7 Unix
supporting 20-30 simultaneous active users in its day, and I wouldn't have
thought pl
