dan@rna.UUCP (06/12/84)
nada If you could get a source license, 2.9BSD is probably the best PDP-11 Unix. Otherwise I would recommend Venix as the binary license to get. You might want to wait for the PDP-11/73. Much faster and has split I&D. Not very expensive either. You would be crazy not to get a Unix with overlay support (both kernel and user). Modern Unix programs don't fit on non-overlaid, non-I&D PDP-11's. The MicroVAX is pretty far off in the future, I think. Say, 1 year. I'm not sure why you were considering an 11/23, perhap avaibility of surplus parts. Maybe you'd consider one of the several micro's on the Qbus. You can get a 68000 on the Qbus for about $1000 more than the 11/23. It would be much faster and have at least the 22bit address space. Cheers, Dan Ts'o ...cmcl2!rna!dan