I've assembled some notes from old manuals and other sources
on the formats used for on-disk file systems through the
Seventh Edition:
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~norman/old-unix/old-fs.html
Additional notes, comments on style, and whatnot are welcome.
(It may be sensible to send anything in the last two categories
directly to me, rather than to the whole list.)
I found this while playing with AmphetaDesk for the very first time.
http://www.tribug.org/img/bsd-family-tree.gif
Offhand I think the very top of the graphic is terribly misleading. It
insinuates that UNIX is derived from Multics. It would be just as true to say
it was derived from Project Genie or to say that Linux is derived from UNIX.
They are independant systems with similarities, nothing more.
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Hi,
Has anyone tried to install the ultrix-3.x distribution using simh?
I hacked a little program to build a tape image. It boots fine. I told
the ultrix install I wanted to install for an 11/34 on a RL02. It seems
to install fine and then reboot on the RL02 but hang in the shell after
the boot (see below).
I know using an RL02 with an 34 is optimistic :-) it's just that what I
have for actual hardware.
any idea if this is an simh problem or an ultrix problem or user error?
-brad
output:
...
****** BOOTING ULTRIX-11 SYSTEM TO SINGLE-USER MODE ******
Sizing Memory...
Boot: rl(0,0)unix (CTRL/C will abort auto-boot)
rl(0,0)unix: 14784+17026+8192+8000+8064+8192+8128+8128+8128+8192+8192+8064+7744+
6976
ULTRIX-11 Kernel V3.0
realmem = 253952
buffers = 25600
clists = 1600
usermem = 95232
maxumem = 95232
erase = delete, kill = ^U, intr = ^C
Thanks to everybody who replied. And thanks to Markus Weber for pointing me
to http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html
I've got OpenVMS 7.3 installed now, I just haven't got it fully setup.
That makes me a user of, let's see, how many Operating Systems? And I used to
think being able to install MS-DOS 5.0 was a mark of the fully-capable and
highly-skilled computer-user! <(;^)
(Took me ages to work out I needed to fdisk the C: partition to install OS/2
2.0; SLS Linux 0.99pl?? took ages to work out how to make partitions _and_
file systems, and I was nowhere near game enough to try extfs; Maybe I'm
getting there - or at least, somewhere! ;)
--
Wesley Parish
* * *
Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish
* * *
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."
I find it interesting how Microsoft's name seems to pop up in Unix software.
There are quite a few times when Microsoft's name appears on the same
line as SCO's.
$ strings svr4.tar | grep -i microsoft | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
[output attached]
I've got OpenVMS 7.3 and am planning on installing it under the SIMH/TS10 VAX.
How do I go about making disk file images?
None of the SIMH/TS10 files seem to include a Linux utility for making such a
creature - does anyone have any pointers?
Thanks
--
Wesley Parish
* * *
Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish
* * *
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."
I know the SCO topic's been done to death, and all, but I was thinking about
the Microsoft purchase of a Unix license (apparently) for their MS SFU
(Windows Services For Unix) which contrary to the plain meaning of the name,
is essentially a Unix (apparently OpenBSD, according to rumour) box on top of
the Windows kernel and Win32 API.
The question is, wouldn't that put Microsoft and the SCO Group in breach of
the settlement between AT&T and Berkeley? If Win SFU _is_ OpenBSD, and
Microsoft have bought a license to run it from the SCO Group of all people,
isn't that in effect picking a fight with Theo de Raadt?
This isn't definite, of course - some details I'm not sure of. But I think if
this is so, we have some very interesting few years to look forward to.
--
Wesley Parish
* * *
Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish
* * *
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."
SCO's whole story is just TOO bizarre... (Score:3, Interesting)
by cozziewozzie (344246) on Friday March 05, @08:24AM (#8474219)
I mean, who could have thought of a worse, more stupid way to piss off the
whole tech sector and drive yourself into bankruptcy. The more I think about
it, the more this strange idea develops that SCO (Caldera) is actually doing
all this rubbish to help the Linux community. OK, it is way out there, but in
some perverted way, it makes sense.
First of all, you have a Linux company (Caldera) who, despite their best
efforts, has trouble staying afloat. At this time, there is no corporate
support for Linux, the big vendors are running away from it, and the "GPL has
never been tested in court" is touted as an argument all over the place. Big
UNIX vendors only see Linux as a way to get people into their more proprietary
solutions.
So, Caldera buys out a UNIX vendor and does the most ridiculous thing
imaginable: sues everybody, proclaims that Linux is communist and all that
bullshit. Fast forward to the current situation: IBM, HP, Novell and other big
players are squarely behind Linux and protecting it. Microsoft is exposed as a
greedy monopolist who uses underhand tactics (yet again). GPL gets tested in
court and it is under such circumstances that guarantee a strong precedent in
GPL's favour. The UNIX heritage is cleared once and for all. Linux wins, in a
BSD fashion, and is free from corporate FUD. And who pays the bill? Greedy
investors.
This could turn out the be the best thing for the corporate image of Linux
ever.
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Michael Sokolov, I notice you're quite fond of the 4.3BSD family, and regard
it as the One True Un*x.
If you'll go to http://masalai.free.fr/386BSD.tar.gz, you'll find Bill
Jolitz's 386BSD 1.0 - mostly the source code. (I've also got the 386BSD 0.0
source files on my machine - about a decade after I almost got them
downloaded but decided not to because Linux was marginally cheaper in terms
of disk numbers. I'll have to mount them loopback and copy the files off
them.)
And perhaps it can be placed with the other 4.3BSD family members in the
appropriate minnie.tuhs directory, Warren?
--
Wesley Parish
* * *
Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish
* * *
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."
