30 Nov
2017
30 Nov
'17
4:28 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 09:11:19AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> C itself is going to be difficult on the PDP-8.
Yes, as noted on this page: http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/C/C.php
You could start with (an early) Minix, I guess; we ran
it on a PDT (I
think) with 2 x RX-05 floppies. Slow, but it worked, sort of.
You mean Xinu, perhaps? Minix was always an 80x86 and 680x0 system.
There is also xv6: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2017/xv6.html
with a small monolithic kernel. I've added a BSD library and runtime
to the kernel here: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/xv6-freebsd
Of course, you could always go retro and try Mini Unix :)
Cheers, Warren