1. A Peek at History
The MCC Interim Release & QEMU
The DEC PDP-11 & SIMH

2. MCC Interim Release What, When, Why? Current state of the archives.
Bootable copy.

3. MCC Interim Release - What?
First 'independently installable' Linux distribution. Manchester Computing Centre.
'Extended release' on a number of floppies.
A range of utilities, e.g. flex, bison, perl, emacs, elisp, gcc, vi.
Regarded by author, Owen, as 'unofficial experiment'.

4. MCC Interim Release - When?
Version released February 1992.
Release 1.0 April 1994
Release /09/1996 – with X!

5. MCC Interim Release – Why(then) ?
For 'non UNIX experts'
Ease of installation.
Self contained
Easy to extend
'Free', as in speech.

6. MCC Interim Release – Why(now) ?
Historical interest, 'restoration' 'conservation'.
See and play with a very early Linux system.
Manageable for study purposes; easy access to source code; still 'compact'.

7. Current State of MCC IR archives
ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/linux/mcc-interim/
Archives exist under 'old' for kernel versions 0.97 to 1.2+
The latest version is for a 2.0+ kernel
1.0, 1.2+ are still definitely bootable.
QEMU images on MANLUG website, under the history section.

8. QEMU PC Emulator http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu
Runs on a variety of architectures (x86, PowerPC and SPARC are best).
GPL/LGPL
Comprehensive documentation
Quick Demo of MCC IR under QEMU

9. SIMH Project The Computer History Simulation Project
Built by Bob Supnik, ex DEC engineer.
Simulators for 30-odd machines.
Comprehensive documentation and collection of papers.
Packaged for a number of modern Linux distros.
Latest version (has 'set throttle').

10. DEC PDP-11/45
June 1972
Price c.$45,000 (Roughly 2006 prices)
256Kb max memory
16-bit word
Clock speed ?kHz
0.76 mips
Took a team of skilled engineers to unpack and set up.
SIMH Demo of v5 UNIX
0.76