A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator

According to Hackaday, the PDP-11/70 — a historic sixteen-bit minicomputer — has gained a new emulator called Kek, in development since two thousand eighteen. It's capable of running classic Unix versions and BSD. What stands out is the breadth of platforms it supports: Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD systems, but also embedded systems like the Teensy four point one and the ESP thirty-two. Modern microcontrollers have become powerful enough that emulating legacy hardware is no longer a challenge.

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