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From: bqt@Krille.Update.UU.SE (Johnny Billquist)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Unix for PDP-11/23
Date: 14 Mar 1994 18:00:39 +0100
Organization: Update Computer Club
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References: <ellis.763599237@nova> <2m08f4$eb3@news.sprintlink.net>
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In <2m08f4$eb3@news.sprintlink.net> avg@sprintlink.net (Vadim Antonov) writes:

>In <ellis.763599237@nova>, R. Stewart Ellis (ellis@nova.gmi.edu) wrote:
>:  >I'm looking for BSD 2.0 - 2.9 for a pdp-11/23.
>:  >What are my chances?
>:  >How much is is going to cost (approx)?

>There are later revisions...

Yes, but those can't be run on an 11/23.

>: A whole lot less than the electricity to run the beast, unless this is one
>: of the desktop PC things. :)

>11/23 is a Q-bus-based micro.

Yes. And, even if it was a huge pdp-11, it would still be cheap to run
compared to the cost of the UNIX.
Problem is that unix for the pdp-11 still required the AT&T source
license, which costs ridicously much.

	Johnny
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