Topic

pdp11

A collection of 3 issues

Part 2: Preparing an AI agent to port software to the PDP-11

I made some initial efforts at getting pine working on 2.11BSD running on an emulated PDP-11. I was successful with pine's editor, pico. However, pine required a lot more slimming down before it could run on the PDP-11. I turned to an AI agent because

Part 1: Building a UUCP node on an emulated PDP-11

Back in 1995, just before the internet exploded in popularity, I would use my modem connected to a landline to call BBSes. It was the way I would keep in touch with friends, play online games, and download software. My friend ran a BBS and he used UUCP to connect

Porting software to a PDP11

I've been playing around with a PDP11 emulator lately to explore the history of Unix. Since development of the original version of Unix and later 2BSD happened on this hardware, I wanted to better understand the limitations of this hardware and see what "modern" software could