A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has put a real 1980s PDP-11 minicomputer on the web, running a Unix-based operating system. The machine, a PDP-11/83 with upgrades including a Mentec M11 CPU complex and four megabytes of RAM, displays running processes and refreshes the list every few seconds. Visitors can watch the hardware in action, seeing processes like inetd, sendmail, and ftpd running, bringing an internet presence to life from 1984.
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