Yet another emulated PDP-11

by david 21. April 2011 22:11

I have discovered that the Ersatz-11 emulator will even work on Windows Mobile, if you use DOSBox.  Here is an HTC tytn II mobile phone pretending to be a PDP-11 and running RT-11.  Is this the smallest piece of hardware to ever run the RT-11 operating system?

RT-11 running on an HTC tytn II

But it is VERY slow.  It took about 30 minutes to draw my ASCII mandelbrot.  So it's not exactly practical.  As you can see there are also some screen rendering issues, although I could probably fiddle with more settings.  But I think that it's one of those things where you go "oh yeah" ... and then never try it again.

About the author

David

I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta.  Before that I mainly worked in C and C++.  I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years.  I also mess around with microprocesors, but that's just for fun.  I live near Cambridge, England and at the moment I'm contracted to one of the departments at Cambridge University.

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