Comment on What Have We Learned from the PDP-11?parentComments−dboreham8yA big issue is the hard drives which used materials that don't stand up long-term (urethane foam for example).You could use an FPGA to build an emulated RL-05 I suppose but where's the fun in that.−hazeii8yThe bus is sufficiently slow you can emulate the hardware with an MCU.I'm using a slightly different approach with my PDP-11's, which is to use a custom device driver using DRV-11 parallel interfaces connected to a PC at the other end.
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A big issue is the hard drives which used materials that don't stand up long-term (urethane foam for example).
You could use an FPGA to build an emulated RL-05 I suppose but where's the fun in that.
The bus is sufficiently slow you can emulate the hardware with an MCU.
I'm using a slightly different approach with my PDP-11's, which is to use a custom device driver using DRV-11 parallel interfaces connected to a PC at the other end.