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SIMH emulates the PDP-11 (along with a ton of other early mini/microcomputers). It should be possible to run whatever's extracted from the tapes on SIMH. For example, the members of the TUHS mailing list were able to get an even earlier set of UNIX sources from 1972 running again, see here for more info: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix-jun72




They were able to get an even earlier set of UNIX sources running on the SIMH PDP-7 emulator. SEVEN.

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It's really easy to run for yourself: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/

Don't expect it to do much, but it's fascinating if you're interested in OS history.

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Your parent commenter it's more than aware of Unix retroemulation and ITS...

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