Emulation of Unix V6 on a PDP-11 with an emulated teletype

Re:Emulation of Unix V6 on a PDP-11 with an emulated teletype by ajross on Saturday March 07, 2020 @12:24PM (#22512728)

Yeah, though this feels artificially slow to me. Even the earliest Teletype machines could manage 10+ cps, and by the mid-70's time frame (v6 was released in 1975) much faster devices were available (and of course video terminals were starting to arrive too).

I'm sure someone used a PDP-11 with a terminal this slow, but it's unlikely to have been the typical developer experience.

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Re:Emulation of Unix V6 on a PDP-11 with an emulated teletype by davidgould on Sunday March 08, 2020 @04:49PM (#22520511)

I used a PDP-11/70 with ASR-33 TTYs as late as 1978. They were still common because while slow and noisy they were much cheaper than the DECwriter, and could also read and punch paper tape. Since mass storage was very expensive (10MB for $20,000) and since floppies were not yet common, paper tape was the USB stick of the time.

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