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I have this dream of a github repo that contains all the historical code along with instructions how to run emulators of the old hardware. I know there is a ha

I have this dream of a github repo that contains all the historical code along with instructions how to run emulators of the old hardware. I know there is a hardware accurate PDP-11 emulator, probably someone did a PDP-7 also - I haven’t looked. I’m not sure if all the original source code is publicly available, it ideally should be, hopefully nothing has been lost. Such a project would be like a digital historian. Preserving for future generations all technical details.

fao_ 3y ago
> I’m not sure if all the original source code is publicly available, it ideally should be, hopefully nothing has been lost. This all already exists! :D TUHS has an FTP with various dumps of the source code https://www.tuhs.org/ https://www.tuhs.org/
- vladak 3y ago
  There is also https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo (Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today)
rahen 3y ago
> I know there is a hardware accurate PDP-11 emulator Better yet, simulator at the schematic or microcode level. The KA11 was the first PDP11 CPU accurately simulated but the KD11 also seems to be working. https://github.com/aap/pdp11 https://github.com/aap/pdp11