30 Jul
2020
30 Jul
'20
10:13 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 7:49 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
- If you get the V1 that ran on an -11/20 (which is
mostly compatible with
the /04 and /05), it should run on an /04. (Not sure what you'd use for
mass
storage, on a physical /04, though.) I'm not sure when they dropped the
/20 -
I think V4 n(at the latest)? But V2 and V3 are lost.
Yes, the reconstructed 1st edition may run (though from dates and such,
it's somewhere between 1st and 2nd edition), though I've no direct
experience with 11/04 hardware, nor ideas on how to bootstrap it onto
appropriate physical media...
I have it in my head that the 4th edition was rewritten for the 11/45 and
removed support for 11/20. I thought I knew why, but could only find part
of the story in the manuals...
There's a strong note in the 4th edition preface that it applies only to
the 'c' version of Unix and the 3rd edition preface has a note saying the
manual doesn't apply to the 11/20 version and to look in the 2nd or even
1st edition manuals for that.
As others have mentioned, Mini-unix and/or LSX might have a shot, but it
might be best characterized as a long shot.
Warner