NO, the 11/23 has an MMU and was perflectly capable of running  UNIX.   The 23+ had the extra  address lines  allowing it to address 4 MB like the 11/70.


------ Original Message ------
From "Adam Thornton" <athornton@gmail.com>
To "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>; "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Date 12/5/2024 9:29:24 PM
Subject Re: [TUHS] Re: Pipes (was Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?)

/23+, no?  The basic 23 doesn't have an MMU, I'm pretty sure.

On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 11:58 AM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
I remember on MiniUnix (a stripped down kernel that would run on PDP11’s
without memory management, in our case 11/03, 11/20, and an older 11/40)
there were no kernel pipes (and limited process concurrency).
The shell used the aforementioned emulation of pipe by just running the
output of one process into a temporary file subsequently loaded as stdin
of the other.

We kind of put all that to bed when the 11/23s came out and we could run
our full up kernel on the micros.