On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Ken Seefried wrote:

>
> Not NetBSD, but depending on the model, it could run 2.x BSD.  I am under
> the impression that there is a free hobbyist license for this now.
>
> There are a number of more or less "interesting" (e.g. likely
> insurmountable) problems with porting NetBSD to the PDP, ranging from 16-bit
> only architecture, small address space (16-, 18- or, if lucky 22-bit), MMU
> with a tiny number of 8K pages, etc.  Perhaps picoBSD would be a better
> place to start.
>
	AFAIK picoBSD is just a standard FreeBSD kernel with a specific
	set of hardware support and a very specifically targetted small
	userland.

	If you _really_ want to put a more modern OS onto the box
	you could start with ELKS (The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) at
		http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/intro.php3

	Personally, I'd leave 2.11 on the PDP and concentrate on NetBSD
	on a vax or similar :)

                David/absolute
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