> But can you still get a real PDP-11 replacement for driving vintage hardware?
Probably not. But I think John Wilson of Ersatz-11 fame created a Unibus (or
QBus?) interface for PCs so E-11 could drive real DEC peripherals.
Given suitable transceivers, it would not be all that hard to create a PDP-11
replacement with Unibus and/or Qbus capability out of an FPGA. There are
working PDP11 emulations for FPGAs.
Paul
I picked up a PC of a retired "DEC solutions" engineer.
He worked with the licensed Ersatz-11 of John Wilson.
In one of the PCs is that famous card to connect PDP-11 peripherals to a PC.
That card is not supported in the free version of Ersatz-11.
I have not yet looked at that PC, so I do not know whether it is QBUS or UNIBUS.
One of these days ...
Henk, PA8PDP
