What should I do with my PDP-11 emulator?
April 15, 2004 8:21 AM   Subscribe

As a few of you may have noticed on #mefi last night, I got an emulated PDP-11 with 2.11BSD up and running to make myself feel better about my real PDP-11 having a dead disk drive. This emulator is actually quite a bit faster and has network capability i.e. I can see the outside world, and the outside world could see me.

My question: what should I actually do with this thing? Keep in mind the emulator has a C compiler (but god knows what it can do), and 3 MB RAM -- and that's about it. And no, perl won't work on the PDP-11.

I suppose I could write an IRC client or simple web browser for it (since no one else seems to have), but that seems a little wrong. Would this be the kind of thing other people might be interested in playing with?
posted by Captain_Tenille to Technology (5 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
You could play Lunar Lander, just like I did back in the 70s.
posted by fuzz at 8:38 AM on April 15, 2004


People seem to have a lot of fun at pdp11.org.
posted by four panels at 8:43 AM on April 15, 2004


You could the system as an APL2C box.
posted by Smart Dalek at 9:08 AM on April 15, 2004


play Space Travel.
posted by moz at 12:28 PM on April 15, 2004


Buy the Lions book and have your own, hand-keyed Unix v6?
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 2:36 PM on April 15, 2004


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