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
Sorry, this is a bit off-topic, but I'm not sure of anywhere better to
ask.
I used to have a number of HLH Orion machines, which were superminis
(they ran BSD 4.2 / 4.3) made in the UK in the 80s and very early
90s. A friend of mine still has some, which I suspect may be the last
ones extant, and a mass of documentation & media for them. He's
retiring soon and needs to find homes for them.
I think they're historically reasonably interesting machines - I
suspect they may have been almost the last significant British
computer design, and the earlier model was quite an interesting
machine, with user-programmable microcode &c (the later model was, I
think, not so interesting, if a lot faster).
Does anyone know of any museum-type places which might be able to
offer them a home? They are still working (we think, he needs to turn
them on). I'm thinking of approaching the Bletchley Park people, but
I'm wondering if anyone here has any better leads.
Thanks!
--tim
