[rescue] Screw (software) emulators!

BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Aug 7 09:35:23 CDT 2001


> I noticed the software emulation site I listed before had some form of IBM
> 1401 emulation - that would be interesting to look at too...

Well, if one is really into masochismus type things, Dennis Ritchie was
looking for any V1 unix bits still extant.  He has uncovered a few.
I wonder if it might be possible to recreate the V1 UNIX on one of
these ``new'' pdp8 thingies.....(:+}}...  That would be a gas....

Bob

> > It's clocked at 8MHz, so if he kept the cycle times reasonable (haven't
> > looked at his VHDL in detail) it should be one of the zippiest -8's.




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