1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

Spock levels of fascinating from me. I want to learn how to compile a pdp11 emulator on my mac.

Compiling an emulator is quite easy: have a look at simh. It's very portable and should just work out of the box.

Once you've got that working, try installing a 2.11BSD distribution. It's well-documented and came after a lot of the churn in early Unix. After that, I've had great fun playing with RT-11, to the point that I've actually written some small apps on it.

From the link:

> It's somewhat picky about the environment. So far, aap's PDP-11/20 emulator (https://github.com/aap/pdp11) is the only one capable of booting the kernel. SIMH and Ersatz-11 both hang before reaching the login prompt. This makes installation from the s1/s2 tapes difficult, as aap's emulator does not support the TC11. The intended installation process involves booting from s1 and restoring files from s2.

good luck though. my emulator is not particularly user friendly, as in, it has no user interface. i recommend simh (although perhaps not for this thing in particular).

So what mechanism do you have set up to reply 4 minutes after being mentioned? :)

Compulsively checking HN i suppose :D