TUHS November 2003

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by Kenneth Stailey

http://www.didiermorandi.com/vms/vaxvms2itanium_200311en.pdf mildly amusing __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

21 years, 1 month

Re: pdp11/34 can't boot. help us !

by John Holden

The machine sounds a scary mix of Unibus and Qbus peripherals (a real Heath Robinson!). Given you cannot deposit/examine memory and get correct results, the bootstrap will halt because it runs some diagnostics (including memory) before it attempts to boot a device. The first step it is to strip down the system to the first system unit. You can still leave all the cards in, just remove the unibus jumper from slot 9 and move the terminator M9302 into slot 9 (a-b). For good measure, I'd also remove the M8217 from slot 9 (c-f) and put in a bus grant continuity card if you have one. Since it's (now) the last slot, it shouldn't matter if the grant card is missing. Then try your memory deposit/examine test. I'm assuming here that you have tested all the power supply voltages as it appear that you have a fairly loaded system. Have a look at the following site for more hints:- http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/hints.html

21 years, 1 month

While on the subject of 32V ...

by Pat Villani

Folks, I recently copied down the 32V source, and compiled the kernel with gcc. Much to my surprise, most of it compiled. I then split out the machine dependent versus the machine independent files (loose classification :-), and compiled again. Naturally, in both cases, you could not actually build a kernel because there are vax specific .s files, but the individual C files compiled. Not a bad start. As a result, I've been giving serious consideration to porting it to Intel IA32 platforms. It's much simpler than the unix I worked on until last year (Tru64, aka OSF/1 and Digital UNIX), and the 32V kernel is only a little bigger than the original FreeDOS kernel I wrote. The Caldera license is pretty much a BSD license, which could be considered an open source license. This means I should be able to work on it without worrying about IP, although I'd still need management approval. Should I undertake such an project, would there be enough interest to justify the effort? Pat -- You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford

21 years, 1 month

Re: 32V update (was Re: [TUHS] While on the subject of 32V ...)

by macbiesz＠optonline.net

You should make some kind of status log, showing what parts of the system have been ported, and what still needs to be done. That would make it easier for others to help out. Maciek ----- Original Message ----- From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2003 4:56 am Subject: Re: 32V update (was Re: [TUHS] While on the subject of 32V ...) > I'm trying to work out whether or not gcc takes a look at its own > header files > before or after it looks at the ones I've set it to look at - I got > some > weird warnings and error messages before I expanded the -I to > > gcc -I./../../include -I./../../include/sys -I./../sys/h > > Still need the *.s files in the libraries dealt with, and as > before, I know > nothing of the VAX assembler syntax and mostly x86 in Intel syntax. > > If anyone wants to join in with this, I would be very, very grateful. > > Wesley Parish > > P.S. I've got to redo the utilities - I think that once I get the > libraries > sorted out, the utilities will be easy meat.

21 years, 1 month

pray for us ! pdp11/34 operation! :)

by asbesto

pray for us !!! in these days we will try to change the broken chip on the pdp11/34 RL01 controller board. some details will follow - we will put online as much information and images as possibile. -- [asbesto : freaknet medialab : radio#cybernet : GPG key on keyservers] [ MAIL ATTACH, SPAM, HTML, WORD, and msgs larger than 95K > /dev/null ] [http://www.freaknet.org/asbesto IW9HGS http://kyuzz.org/radiocybernet]

21 years, 1 month

Re: 32V update (was Re: [TUHS] While on the subject of 32V ...)

by Wesley Parish

Just an update - I'm now compiling ~/[...]/32V/usr/src/libc/gen to *.o using gcc set with -I../../include . Most of them compile smoothly. I hope I'll have most of the library compiled to *.o soon, enough for using as the basis for compiling the utilities to 32I. Wesley Parish -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

21 years, 1 month

[pups] emulex UC01

by Naoki Hamada

Hi, A few months ago I bought an EMULEX databook titled "DISK AND TAPE PRODUCTS HANDBOOK". I found a quite interesting product named UC01. It is a SCSI controller which can emulate two RLV11/RLV12's with 22bit addressing. It means that you can mimic eight RL02 drives with a crisp ZIP drive! Thus you can enjoy various versions of unix (modified v7, 2.9BSD, 2.11BSD a bit harsh? and maybe even modified v6) without huge cabinets. UC01 seems quite hard to find and expensive if available. EZSystems(http://www.ezsystems.com/) has stocks, $345 each. I want to know if it actually works well with my PDP-11/53 before I try it. Has anyone experience with UC01? Naoki Hamada nao(a)tom-yam.or.jp

21 years, 1 month

32V kernel update

by Pat Villani

Uploaded new kernel archive. Reworked Makefile. I got it to compile with a stub file. Still much work rewriting machine dependent code. Latest is 32v-031102-01.tar.gz. Available via anonymous ftp at sever.opensourcedepot.com. Pat

21 years, 1 month

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TUHS November 2003