Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!rocky2!rna!dan From: dan@rna.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Unix on PDP-11/23 Message-ID: <258@rna.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 20:51:58 EDT Article-I.D.: rna.258 Posted: Mon Jun 11 20:51:58 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jun-84 23:58:07 EDT Organization: Rockefeller Neurobiology, NYC Lines: 19 nada If you could get a source license, 2.9BSD is probably the best PDP-11 Unix. Otherwise I would recommend Venix as the binary license to get. You might want to wait for the PDP-11/73. Much faster and has split I&D. Not very expensive either. You would be crazy not to get a Unix with overlay support (both kernel and user). Modern Unix programs don't fit on non-overlaid, non-I&D PDP-11's. The MicroVAX is pretty far off in the future, I think. Say, 1 year. I'm not sure why you were considering an 11/23, perhap avaibility of surplus parts. Maybe you'd consider one of the several micro's on the Qbus. You can get a 68000 on the Qbus for about $1000 more than the 11/23. It would be much faster and have at least the 22bit address space. Cheers, Dan Ts'o ...cmcl2!rna!dan