[geeks] Q: PDP-11 programming environment

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Fri Oct 2 14:31:00 CDT 2020


 http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/pdp11emu.html  points to a
very old version of Simh.   The current version is
https://github.com/simh/simh
which I would recommend you start with unless you build a PiPD-11 (oscar
tracks the latest but he has some differences to support his HW)

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:25 PM William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This page http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/pdp11emu.html is
> the
> best one stop place to go that I am aware of. I prefer SIMH for the
> emulator but I stick to BSD 2.11 for an OS so I'm not much help with the
> DEC software though it can't be any more, ah, interesting than VMS was. :D
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 1:48 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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