smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich) (01/17/84)
For several more years our site will be running large, CPU-bound PDP11 software which software cannot easily be ported to 68000s or Vaxen for reasons not pertinent here. As the application does little IO and is limited entirely by floating-point speed of the PDP11, we are thinking of obtaining several LSI-11/73's (the "11/70" on a card, using the J11 chip) and configuring them as stripped-down Unixes connected over Ethernet. As these machines would not be supporting real users, but would only have infrequent large jobs shipped to them, we would prefer even to avoid the cost of local disks on each machine. My question: Has anyone actually ported any Unix (e.g. V7) to the LSI11/73? Any particular horrors about it? [I already *know* the horrors of porting to and running diskless systems -- so don't flame about it! :-) I would probably put some minimal disk on the firsts such system anyway.] Thanks for any responses. Steve Haflich, MIT Experimental Music Studio genrad!mit-ems!smh, smh@mit-eddie@mit-mc