[Info-vax] Alternative _legal_ operating systems for VAX ?
Bob Eager
news0009 at eager.cx
Wed Jan 5 18:29:08 EST 2022
On Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:18:40 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> For a PDP-11 I would definitely point at 2.11BSD any day of the week.
> It's really nice and good, and actually pretty useful even for "real"
> work.
If the machine is use doesn't have separate I and D space, it's a bit of
a tight fit. I remember the struggles we had.
In that case, there's always Sixth Edition.
And if it's a PDP-11 with no memory management, Mini-UNIX (a little known
thing, but a genuine Bell Labs one):
http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/mini-unix.html
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