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I'm into retrocomputing. Is there any chance we could have a PDP-11 emulator ported to the GP2X? You know, just in case I'm warped into the 1970s and have to use dumb terminals or impress the natives... :lol:
 
atomicthumbs posted on Jul 11 2006 at 11:39 PM said:
I'm into retrocomputing. Is there any chance we could have a PDP-11 emulator ported to the GP2X? You know, just in case I'm warped into the 1970s and have to use dumb terminals or impress the natives... :lol:

I hope you are serious about this. That would actually be really cool. I would love to do that...just not today. Trying to finish other projects.

A quick search found this http://simh.trailing-edge.com/.

I still think the PDP-11 is the ideal platform for teaching assembler...And of course the C programming language was developed from it and on a PDP-11...And as we know C and UNIX were fairly insignificant in computing history <G>
 
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If you are warped into the 1970's, first thing you should do is put stock in IBM and let it ride. Then take in all the concerts available and the free love going on at the time. A dumb terminal system wouldn't wow anyone non-technical, even back then. The LCD screen would blow their minds though, especially any acid-warp style demos.
 
PDP-11? i thought you wanted an old computer simulator ..

(Hint: There is EDSAC on the GP2X already .. check the archives!)
 
wow looks like to insides of a space ship in one of those old films =)
 
Oh Man! PDP 11 34, Highschool daze. I remember the Prof. Dropping a platter stack, bending them, and the school losing it's backup of data... hee hee.. wow.. pdp 11 34, wrote my first games on that.. wow... geez, that's a million years ago... That would be awesome!

~Cr8tive Leo


Wow... would we need a punch card reader? *grins*

Watfor, assembly.... wow... Geez... *shakes head... yeah... I think I got expelled from school with a couple of buds for doing somthing to the PDP 11... make it play music... tee hee hee... *
 
torpor posted on Jul 12 2006 at 07:41 AM said:
PDP-11? i thought you wanted an old computer simulator ..

(Hint: There is EDSAC on the GP2X already .. check the archives!)

The PDP-11 IS old.

pdp11-24.jpe


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Teletype, computer, and terminal.
 
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atomicthumbs posted on Jul 12 2006 at 10:53 AM said:
torpor posted on Jul 12 2006 at 07:41 AM said:
PDP-11? i thought you wanted an old computer simulator ..

(Hint: There is EDSAC on the GP2X already .. check the archives!)

The PDP-11 IS old.
Not as old as the EDSAC.
 
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Ravnos posted on Jul 12 2006 at 05:04 PM said:
atomicthumbs posted on Jul 12 2006 at 10:53 AM said:
torpor posted on Jul 12 2006 at 07:41 AM said:
PDP-11? i thought you wanted an old computer simulator ..

(Hint: There is EDSAC on the GP2X already .. check the archives!)

The PDP-11 IS old.
Not as old as the EDSAC.


Yes, but the EDSAC doesn't exactly have a UI, as far as I know. The PDP-11 runs RSX-11 (?) or maybe System V Unix or TOPS-10 or TOPS-20 or ITS...

Actually, I have no idea. Some flavor of UNIX or some timesharing OS, I think. :rolleyes:
 
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I know there are several PDP-8/e emulators out there. A PDP-11 is an extremely common system so I'd hope that is also supported.

I'll have to hunt down some PDP-11 emulators and see if I can port the source somehow.
 
ravuya posted on Jul 13 2006 at 03:26 AM said:
I know there are several PDP-8/e emulators out there. A PDP-11 is an extremely common system so I'd hope that is also supported.

I'll have to hunt down some PDP-11 emulators and see if I can port the source somehow.

Awsome dude! :p
 
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