[geeks] Q: PDP-11 programming environment

[Clem Cole]

http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_v7_on_SIMH  or
https://decuser.blogspot.com/2015/12/installing-and-using-research-unix.html
<https://decuser.blogspot.com/2015/12/installing-and-using-research-unix.html>
will
tell you how to install and run Seventh Edition of UNIX -- a suggestion is
to set it up as an 11/70 so you have max memory and separate I/D.

If you want to run PDP-11 Macro assembler, the Unix version of the DEC
Macro 11 can be found in the TUHS Archives or you can use the AT&T Macro
assembler that will be there already.  The C Compiler for V7 is the
original K&R White Book.   Note the editor is over course ed, so you may
want to learn how to install a video editor like vi or used BSD 2.10/11
which will have it preinstalled.

Another thought is to build a PiDP-11
https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one which will
give you a number of different PDP-11 emulations preloaded including V7,
2.11 as well as RT-11 and RSX.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:48 PM Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Today on a whim I picked up a copy of a 40 year-old book "Minicomputer
> Systems, Organizing, Programming, and Applications (PDP-11), 2nd Edition"
> and
> am contemplating setting up a virtual PDP-11 environment to go with the
> exercises in the book, but I have no exp. with SIMH or other 'virtual'
> PDP-11
> (or real, to be honest), any suggestions on how to proceed?
>
> At a basic level I think I'll need a simulator, an OS image, and the
> assorted
> programming tools to write assembler (MACRO-11?) - correct? Pointers?
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