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What about a small session on a UNIX v5 or v6 workstation on a Raspberry Pi Pico?

Sounds bonkers? It's not.

Ian Schofield – publishing on github as lsysxp – has surprised exactly with this in the last days – however, due to the actually somewhat limited processing power of the RasPi, one rather has to remove the word workstation from the above sentence.

But to get a PDP11/40 emulator running (independently from SIMH) on the Pico, and afterwards also UNIX on top - that's quite an achievement.

Since the Pico is neither expensive nor Unobtanium, the experiment is largely risk-free. Only a little patience and time are necessary. All a bit hacky so far - but it wouldn't be fun if it was easy.

Have fun tinkering!