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.

Really fun machines, though.  Lovely assembly language.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Joachim Buss [mailto:TK97EL12@technis.syh.fi]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:20 AM
To: port-pmax@netbsd.org; port-vax@netbsd.org
Subject: OT: PDP-11 thoughts


Hi,

Could the PDP-11 ever be capable of running netbsd?

I was thinking of aquiring one from work, a "micro-PDP".
To my suprise it was not larger than 2 big IBM 286 boxes ...
This one has both floppy and hdd 20 MB + framebuffer options.

I'd have to wait a while for one machine though ... can you imagine, 
one machine is still in use and another they keep for spare parts!

Probably a nice collectors's piece, right?

Joachim Buss