> What I'm trying to do (as a summer, relaxing project ;)) is to be able to > build a very basic PDP11 kernel from scratch (oh, yeah! ;)). The longterm > plan is to offer that to an uni OS teacher friend of mine and study if it > could be an useful learning tool for students. But that's a really long > shot. The short-term goal is to have as much fun as I can :-P
The short-term goal should be a cinch! For long term goal, could be possible, but 1) its a really dated system, 2) there actually is a really really good pdp 11 kernel for study. Check out the Lion's commentary: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/ It's been used in university courses before, though because the hardware it is built on is not relevant, and because the kernel is very old, classes usually opt for a more recent kernel to study. (A good example is MIT moving from using v6 to using http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html) Best of luck and happy hacking! -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
