[Simh] KE11A support patch
Brad Parker
brad at heeltoe.com
Sun May 4 08:50:59 EDT 2008
Rich Alderson wrote:
>> From: Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com>
>> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 07:16:19 -0400
>
>> In order to boot v1 unix, we needed to add support to simh for the
>> KE11A. I grabbed some of the code in 'apout' and made a simple KE
>> device. Basically its a unibus based math device with a few registers
>> in the address space.
>
>I have to ask: What do you mean by "v1 unix"? The earliest versions of UNIX
>ran on the PDP-7, and certainly did not have (PDP-11) Unibus support of any
>kind.
dmr himself refers to it as "1st edition". I guess v1 is not accurate,
sorry.
It's the first edition ("1ed") unix which ran on a pdp-11/20 with EAE.
The project is know as "unix-jun72" because that's the date of the memo
which published a listing of the kernel source code.
-brad
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