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.)
Hi,
I successfully made SIMH VAX-11/780 emulator run 32V, 3BSD and 4.0BSD.
Details are on my web site (thogh rather tarse):
http://zazie.tom-yam.or.jp/starunix/
Enjoy!
Naoki Hamada
nao(a)tom-yam.or.jp
I've placed two sets of 800bpi 780 System III tape images
temporarily under http://bitsavers.org/sysIII
Curiously, they don't match. There were no dates on the tapes
which are originals.
Al Kossow wrote:
>I've placed two sets of 800bpi 780 System III tape images
>temporarily under http://bitsavers.org/sysIII
>
>Curiously, they don't match. There were no dates on the tapes
>which are originals.
>
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Why do I get read errors on the second file on the first tapes of both
sets under SIMH? I didn't think it was even possible for tape I/O errors
to occur under SIMH unless the image is corrupted.
Al Kossow wrote:
>I've placed two sets of 800bpi 780 System III tape images
>temporarily under http://bitsavers.org/sysIII
>
>Curiously, they don't match. There were no dates on the tapes
>which are originals.
>
>
Why do I get read errors on the second file on the first tapes of both
sets under SIMH? I didn't think it was even possible for tape I/O errors
to occur under SIMH unless the image is corrupted.
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:52:47 -0400
John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org> wrote:
> Tim Bradshaw scripsit:
>
> > I'm assuming that the source isn't available at all (I wonder if Sun
> > still have it?)
>
> It is not *legally* available, but it is *actually* available.
> Like, say, _The Lord of the Rings_ in HTML.
>
The funny thing, if I did read correctly the filings and agreements from
Groklaw is that a legal third party could probably release this code
*legally* if it is *acually* available.
I'm talking about something that popped up in the SCO vs IBM case: as I
remember, the agreement stated that IBM was required to held confidential
all information except in the case it had been made widely available by
some third party.
>The exception is set forth in Section 7.06(a) of the standard software agreement:
>
> If information relating to a SOFTWARE PRODUCT subject to this Agreement at any
>time becomes available without restriction to the general public by acts not
>attributable to LICENSEE or its employees, LICENSEE'S obligations under this
>section shall not apply to such information after such time.
Thus it seems possible that UNIX source code licensees would -in the case the
code had been made available *by others* have no longer obligation to keep it
confidential.
But, and this is IMPORTANT, IANAL, so don't take my word for it. My guess is
that even if so, most licensses will be reluctant to take any action without
legal counsel, which is costly and unless they had a compelling reason to,
they would therefore rather not ask, not act and not risk.
j
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These opinions are mine and only mine. Hey man, I saw them first!
José R. Valverde
De nada sirve la Inteligencia Artificial cuando falta la Natural
lm(a)bitmover.com wrote:
>Does anyone out there have a machine or a tape? I'm looking for the
>lint libraries I wrote, there were posix, psd, xpg*, etc. I was pretty
>focussed, back in the day, on making it easy for people to write code
>that could port easily. These days nobody cares about that stuff but
>I'd like a copy of those lint libs. If you don't get why think about
>how hard it is to care if it is a char* or a void* or an int or a long.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--lm
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Old versions of SunOS from 2.0 to 4.1.1for Sun 2, 3, and 3x can be found
at http://www.sun3arc.org and http://www.soupwizard.com/sun2/
> > I'm assuming that the source isn't available at all (I wonder if Sun
> > still have it?)
>
> It is not *legally* available, but it is *actually* available.
As the guy who started this thread, I'm very grateful for the help.
All I wanted was the lint libraries I wrote, those were like include files
and it is hard to imagine Sun cares about those (I had to threaten to
quit to get them included in the release, back in the day of 200MB disks).
And while I really appreciate all the offers for the source of SunOS
4.x, I'm a CEO of a software company and it would be way over the line
if I accepted any of those offers. So thanks, I appeciate it, but I
hope you'll understand that I have to color inside the lines.
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Hi,
Does anyone of You know of any public mainframe/as400 offering public
service with 3270 interface, I mean which can be contacted via x3270
running in Unix X.
locis.loc.gov, serving in Library of Congress for 2 or 3 decades, seems
to be gone, but perhaps there are still some survived in USA .
Andrzej
I beleive I have sucessfully read a Dec, 1979 mini-unix
distribution tape yesterday evening. I've placed it for
the next week or so under http://bitsavers.org/miniunix
It is in .tap format, which should work with SIMH.
It is a single large file blocked 512 bytes/record
