[geeks] Q: PDP-11 programming environment

[Clem Cole]

IIRC somebody recently (late last winter/early spring 2020) updated the
linker and macro assembler to support some features that were missing and
also I think they maybe even make it compile with a modern C compiler and
thus be able to cross assemble/link from a modern Mac as they wanted to
play on the raw HW and wanted to be able to create bootable images for
simh.  You'll need to poke through the TUHS mailing list archive  to find
the details.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:31 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

>  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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