As a fan of DEC and Linux… I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to put Unix on the PDP-11.
My thought process tells me Version 6 sounds like it might not be so old, however it was released in May 1975.
Anywho… the end of the install
: hp(0,0)hptmunix
mem = 177344
# MV
# MV
#
# MV HPTMUNIX UNIX
# PWD
/
# L
# LS
BIN
BOOT
DEV
ETC
HPHTUNIX
LIB
RPHTUNIX
RPTMUNIX
TMP
UNIX
USR
#
I don’t know why things appear in uppercase. It doesn’t appear that way in the install instructions. But it’s obvious that it’s accepting the commands. I’m aware that every command available in modern Linux would not be available in ancient Unix.
There are other recommended steps that I won’t do. If this was 1975, I might, if I thought the outcome was worth it. I still would have thought it was a stupid, look at how smart I am, process, even back then because I know what computers are capable of. But the whole process is so archaic and I have little desire to dig in more. It maybe the worst install I’ve ever done, did they purposely try and make it complex. Mission accomplished! What… the keyboard/display wasn’t capable of generating/displaying meaningful prompts? Hey look at me I’m sitting here with my pocket protector and slide rule, entering character that no one (unless they consulted a manual) would understand. No such thing as ASCII? It’s obviously even more archaic than installing Slackware, 21 years later, in 1996.