Sender: Michael Engel <engel@jordan.numerik.math.uni-siegen.de>
From: Michael Engel <engel@math.uni-siegen.de>
Subject: Re: Minix for the PDP-11?
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Hi,

Warren Toomey <wkt@css.adfa.edu.au> wrote:
: Given the new Minix license, I now say ... anybody want to help port
: Minix to the PDP-11?

Hmmm, I was thinking about that for some time, too ...

: [ hears Andy groan from afar :-) ]

;-)

: Actually, I'm being half serious. It costs $100 to get a decent Unix for
: the PDP-11 (i.e 2.11BSD, many kudos to Steven Schultz). It would be nice
: to have a free alternative.

Looks like it's time to dig out my trusty old 11/23 and 11/73 again. 
Now the only thing I need is a decent disk interface for the old Q-Bus 
machines (*not* an RQDX3 ...). Did anyone try to build the Q-Bus IDE
interface from ftp://digital.dp.ua/DEC/ata/ ?

regards,
	Michael
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Michael Engel	(engel@unix-ag.org)
