Hello,
On my FreeBSD/i386 host, I was unable to extract the "rootdump"
file of the 4.4BSD-Alpha distribution available on Minnie.
Fortunately, I succeeded on my NetBSD/vax machine, even though
its version of NetBSD is far older than FreeBSD 5.3 which is
what I have on the i386.
The VAX "restore" program mentioned something about quad-
swapping, so perhaps FreeBSD's "restore" does not translate
the byte order. I think the 4.4BSD distribution is from a
big-endian machine ("hp300"). It's funny, then, that I was
sure that *at least* byte-order could *not* be the problem
since both the i386 and VAX are little-endian and I was sure
the 4.4BSD distribution was a VAX one!
After extracting the rootdump, I created a .tar file instead
and uploaded it to minnie.tuhs.org:/incoming, file name
bsd44a-shoppa-rootdump.tar. You may wish to compress it and
move it to the same directory as the other 4.4BSD-Alpha files
so others won't have to go through the trouble I experienced.
Regards,
A. Wik
I just received this from a friend. The format was heavily >>>>>>'d, so I've
cleaned it up a bit. The information about who said what is vague.
Warren
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
To: UNIX Heritage Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Subject: PDP-11 and PDP-10s in Holland
From a discussion on a FreeBSD mailing list:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:05:16PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote..
>>>>>>> I forgot- the world premier PDP-11 site is in .nl.
>>>>> http://www.pdp-11.nl/
Wilko Bulte then wrote:
>>>> I am sure you will also appreciate Geert's museum at:
>>>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~geerol/
>>>> Geert is a friend of mine with a *big* farm house :)
Then Matthew Jacob wrote:
>> see also:
>> http://aceware.iinet.net.au/acms/default.htm
>> They also have a full KL10 (PDP10 (!)) that seems to not be in the list..
>> see: http://aceware.iinet.net.au/acms/EventDetail.asp?lngEventId=48
From a discussion on a FreeBSD mailing list:
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:09:34 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Matthew Jacob wrote:
>> Yeah!
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:05:16PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I forgot- the world premier PDP-11 site is in .nl.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it? Which one do you mean?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pdp-11.nl/
>>>
>>> Ah.
>>>
>>> I am sure you will also appreciate Geert's museum at:
>>>
>>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~geerol/
>>>
>>> Geert is a friend of mine with a *big* farm house :)
>
> see also:
> http://aceware.iinet.net.au/acms/default.htm
>
> They also have a full KL10 (PDP10 (!)) that seems to not be in the list..
> see: http://aceware.iinet.net.au/acms/EventDetail.asp?lngEventId=48
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