Comment by kabdib
3 hours ago
After a day of single combat with multimillion-SLOC tangleware, it's fun to work with a system that you can fit in your head
Personally, I don't do much nostalgia. I've built the PDP-11 clones and run v6 Unix again and (o dear lord) compiled world.c with BDS-C on CP/M and realized that the 70s and 80s kinda sucked, and that I really like modern computing
"RTFM" if available and factual to me is very satisfying.
So without much nostalgia / betting on actual hardware the (partially ST community derived) MiSTer project is just great for this kind of stuff - I guess you know it - if you will a micro PDP-11 surrogate.
I haven't tried this core myself yet but I will eventually:
https://github.com/MiSTer-Enhanced/PDP2011_MiSTer