[Simh] Lost PDP-11 OSes?

Ray Jewhurst raywjewhurst at gmail.com
Thu May 21 00:53:20 EDT 2020


Sorry, the UCSB was a typo, I meant UCSD.

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:15 AM Tom Perrine <tom.perrine at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a tar tape which purports to load the PWB software onto a v6 UNIX
> system, which I've not had time to try, yet.
>
> I used PWB at my first real job, so I'm eager to try it.  If you can point
> me at where you think I might be able to find a complete PWB system
> (image?), I'd appreciate it.  I might be able to get it to work. I have V6
> and V7 going just fine.
>
> My eventual goal is to get KSOS running on PDP-11.  It was one of the very
> first security kernels, and I also worked on that one, circa 1983-1985.
>
> I have heard of UCSD Pascal on PDP-11, but not UCSB?
>
> --tep
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 8:38 PM Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to collect all the OSes that I can for the PDP-11 on Simh and
>> I have noticed that there are a few missing.  The ones I'm looking for are
>> LSX (which used to be available online but I haven't seen it in a few
>> years.), PWB-Unix (which I heard is available but is not able to run on the
>> simulator.), UCSB Pascal (which I haven't seen hide nor hair of. Also, the
>> only Pascal I've seen is SOLO), TRIPOS (which I have only seen broken links
>> even mentioning it for the PDP-11.) and lastly, XINU (which I have only
>> seen tar.gz's on TUHS but no install instructions or disk images.).  If
>> anyone has any leads on any of these, it would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ray
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