Subject: RE: PDP-11 thoughts
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/13/2000 19:15:43
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	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

Linux is more modern in the meaning that it was written later. Not any
other claims on modernity that I know of... :-)
And do you really think the Linux people have any chance of getting that
bloat to fit on a PDP-11?

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

Definitely.

	Johnny

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