It covers building a working v7 instance from tape files that will run on the SimH emulator. First, the reader will be led through the restoration of a pristine v7 instance from tape to disk. Next, the reader will be led through adding a regular user, making the system multi-user capable. Then, the reader will be shown how to make the system multi-session cable allowing multiple simultaneous sessions. Finally, the system will be put to use with hello world, DMR style, and the learn system will be enabled.

Last Updated February 3, 2022

This is a minor update:

  • Sets baud rate to 1200 in .profile so telnet works for the user over telnet DCI lines

Here’s a link: research-unix-7-pdp11-45-v2.1.pdf

Here’s a preview of the pdf:

post added 2022-12-02 12:14:00 -0600