[Info-vax] Alternative _legal_ operating systems for VAX ?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-01-06 00:29, Bob Eager wrote:
> 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.

Today I'm not even sure you can get a non-I/D space machine running 2.11.

> In that case, there's always Sixth Edition.

Or Ultrix 11, as Bill suggested.
But then we're back to much less useful systems again.

> 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

Cool. Thanks for the link.

   Johnny