From: Tim Shoppa <shoppa@alph02.triumf.ca>
Message-Id: <9712082316.AA10544@alph02.triumf.ca>
Subject: Re: PDP-11: Disk over Serial proposal
To: zomad@rio.com (Erin Corliss)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:16:11 -0800 (PST)
Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.971208064741.29193B-100000@rio.com> from "Erin Corliss" at Dec 8, 97 07:03:34 am
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> Ummm....  I'd just like to point out here that if I was intending to put
> PDP-11 Unix to any meaningful use (which *would* be a terrible thing to 
> do to myself) I'd just run an emulator on one of my other computers.  What
> I'm looking for here is a project I can kill some of my weekends on.  I
> was thinking eventually I could wire the /usr/games/chess up to my web
> page so people could "Play a game of chess with the PDP-11!", you know, as
> kind of a freak show act....

Well, if you just want a minimal system that can play simple games
through the console port, you don't need any of the Unices.  RT-11
is perfectly servicable and will boot from floppy or TU58 quite nicely; it's
even possible to have a working TCP/IP implementation on a 11/03
this way.

Tim.