[Info-vax] OT: Unix V6 on a PDP11. In your browser. In JavaScript.

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:02:40 -0800, John Wallace wrote:

> Wrt PDP11 running Unix V6: have you seen http://aiju.de/code/pdp11/
> which appears to be a PDP11 emulator written in JavaScript, running in
> your browser, emulating a PDP11 booting Unix V6 off an RK05? An emulated
> RK05, obviously, whose 2.5MB of data is initially on the other end of
> the Internet from where you are.
> 
> There was brief discussion of it in comp.sys.dec in late April when I
> first heard about it.
> 
> The things some people do in the name of science (or fun).

Speaking of RK05s, in the BBC2 programme about Steve Jobs the other 
night, one of the highlights for me was the sight of a rack of RK05s next 
to an unspecified piece of (IBM?) kit.

Here's the link to watch it, if you are in the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ct00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b018ct00/
Steve_Jobs_Billion_Dollar_Hippy/


-- 
Paul Sture