TUHS August 2009

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by norman＠nose.cita.utoronto.ca

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.)

2 years, 2 months

32V, 3BSD and 4.0BSD on VAX-11/780

by nao

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

8 years, 5 months

default license, old CSRG RCS history? and BSD share/mk/*mk files?

by Jeremy C. Reed

For 4.4BSD files, if no copyright and license is listed for specific files, does the standard UCB license apply? Is there any file or statement that says the license covers all files which don't have a specific license in 4.4BSD-Lite ? Any RCS commit history for old CSRG code? I am looking for the authors/history/copyrights for BSD share/mk/files. I see that 4.4BSD-Alpha has: r--r--r-- 3/7 792 Aug 26 05:00 1992 usr/share/mk/bsd.doc.mk r--r--r-- 3/7 3761 Aug 26 05:00 1992 usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk r--r--r-- 3/7 1574 Aug 26 05:00 1992 usr/share/mk/bsd.man.mk r--r--r-- 3/7 4140 Aug 26 05:00 1992 usr/share/mk/bsd.prog.mk r--r--r-- 3/7 1244 Aug 26 05:00 1992 usr/share/mk/bsd.subdir.mk r--r--r-- 3/7 1387 Aug 26 05:00 1992 usr/share/mk/sys.mk but missing the bsd.README I couldn't find these in the other old 4 and 3BSDs (via the tuhs archive). The share/mk/bsd.README from NetBSD import in 1993 has: # @(#)bsd.README 5.1 (Berkeley) 5/11/90 And sys.mk has: # @(#)sys.mk 5.11 (Berkeley) 3/13/91 And bsd.doc.mk: # @(#)bsd.doc.mk 5.3 (Berkeley) 1/2/91 _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

14 years, 10 months

New patch for 2.11BSD on PDP-11: network DEUNA does not respond to ethernet broadcasts

by Jörg Hoppe

I found and patched an error in the network driver for UNIBUS ethernet controllers DEUNA/DELUA in 2.11BSD for PDP-11. Error reproduction: -------------------------- Build 2.11 BSD with ethernet/TCP/IP support over DEUNA/DELUA controller. Configure the network. Boot up 2.11 BSD, switch to multiuser mode. Wait for 15 Minutes, until all ARP caches in the system are aged out. Try to ping the PDP-11 from a network node, which is NOT listed anywhere in the PDP-11's network configuration files. Ping will fail. Important: since arp requests are also arp responses, do not ping the test node from your PDP-11. The test node may not be contacted by the PDP-11! Before testing, verify on the test node that the PDP-11 is unkown. The command "arp -a" must not display the PDP-11 yet. You can clean the test node's arp cache by executing "arp -d *". This can also be reproduced in SimH, for example with the installation downloadable at /www.ak6dn.com/PDP-11/2.11BSD/ Error explanation: -------------------- The DEUNA/DELUA does not answer ARP requests, so other network nodes can not get the PDP-11's ethernet MACID and can not send anything to it. The DEUNA/DELUA does not answer ARP because it does not receive ethernet broadcast packets (those addressed to MACID FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF). And it is not receiving broadcasts, because the DELUA driver in /sys/pdpif/if_de.c did not set up the DELUA's packet filter to receive FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. Error patch --------------- In /sys/pdpif/if_de.c , the DEUNA/DELUA must be programmed to receive ethernet broadcast pakets. The good way would be to explicitly add MACID FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF to the filter. The fast and dirty way was to program the DELUA to receive ALL multicasts, by setting one more bit in the mode register: In /sys/pdpif/if_de.c, change line ds->ds_pcbb.pcbb2 = MOD_TPAD|MOD_HDX; into ds->ds_pcbb.pcbb2 = MOD_TPAD|MOD_HDX|MOD_ENAL; Status ----------------------------- This is a major bug, as it prevents the PDP-11 under 2.11BSD to run as a server. It's hard to believe that it is still there. In the typical quick "boot up and ping someone" test, it is almost invisible. The bug is not present in the DELQA driver "if_qe.c". I did posted already to alt.sys.pdp11 newsgroup. The error has been acknowledeged by one other user. In the BSD patch archive, this bug seems not to be addressed. regards Joerg Hoppe _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

14 years, 11 months

Re: [TUHS] 8th ed manual sets

by Aharon Robbins

Hi All. A while back Tim wrote: > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:25:00 -1000 (HST) > From: Tim Newsham <newsham(a)lava.net> > To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org > Cc: Uriel <uriel99(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [TUHS] 8th ed manual sets > > This might be of interest to people on this list (originally > posted to the 9fans list): > > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Uriel wrote: > > Thanks to Fish's contribution I have made the Unix 8th Edition manuals > > available at: > > > > http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/ > > > > [ ... ] I asked about a tarball on 9fans, and got this reply to the list, which I'm forwarding here: | From: 0intro(a)gmail.com (David du Colombier) | Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: manual sets | Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:25:28 GMT | | > Is a tarball of the 8th ed manual troff files available? | > | > The Unix Historical Society (see www.tuhs.org) would like to have this | > too, I don't doubt. | | I temporary put it online [1]. Feel free to mirror it. | | I obtained this stuff from an generous anonymous | donor few years ago. | | I thought it would be better to share it. | | [1] http://www.9grid.fr/man.tar.bz2 | | -- | David du Colombier I sent Warren a copy of the tarball. If I can steal the hour, I may try to create a PDF, just for the fun of trying. Feel free to beat me to it. :-) Thanks, Arnold _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

14 years, 11 months

4.1cBSD Anyone?

by Benjamin Huntsman

Hi all! Just curious, has anyone here managed to get 4.1cBSD (or any 4.1 for that matter) running under SIMH or any other hardware or software? How does one prepare a SIMH-format distribution tape from a collection of files? I haven't found a whole lot of information on the subject, and I imagine it'd be fairly difficult to make a root dump without a pre-existing system... Many thanks to all in advance! _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

14 years, 11 months

8th ed manual sets

by Tim Newsham

This might be of interest to people on this list (originally posted to the 9fans list): On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Uriel wrote: > Thanks to Fish's contribution I have made the Unix 8th Edition manuals > available at: > > http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/ > > Tons of fascinating stuff there, including the jerq docs in section 9 > ( http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/9/ ) and what I think is the oldest > documentation of the /proc file system > (http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc ). > > Fish also contributed some pages from section 1 of the Unix Writer's > Workbench: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_WWB/1/ > > Thanks again to Fish for this wonderful contributions, and of course > to the original authors of all this amazing material. > > Peace > > uriel > > P.S.: I'm still working out a couple of kinks in the web interface > that make =(1) and Mail(1) inaccessible, but almost everything else > should work fine, if you notice any problems please let me know. > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Uriel<uriel99(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Slightly off topic (of this thread), but I'm looking for troff sources >> of 8th, 9th, 10th and Plan 9 1st Editions to complete the man page >> collections at http://man.cat-v.org >> >> If anyone knows where I can find copies of any of those, I would be >> most grateful. >> >> uriel >> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Benjamin >> Huntsman<BHuntsman(a)mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote: >>> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm striking out on google, and I'm virtually certain that someone here will know... >>> >>> Does anyone happen to have the ISBN's for the 7th Edition manual set? >>> Volume I is 0-03-061742-1, but I can't seem to find the others... >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >>> -Ben >>> >>> >> > > Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

14 years, 11 months

Additions to the wiki

by Jason Stevens

I don't know if this would be the 'place' to ask, but would something like this be suitable to the TUHS wiki? http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_4.2_BSD_on_SIMH http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_4.3_BSD_Quasijarus_on_SIMH http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_4.3_BSD_RENO_on_SIMH http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_4.3_BSD_on_SIMH http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Ultrix_4.0_on_SIMH I've been slowly putting together some documentation in some wiki like format on how to install various UNIXs into SIMH... Since I wrote them, they could just be wholesale imported... Anyways I don't know if they meet any standards, etc etc... Naturally I'll add 32v, 3BSD, 4BSD & 4.1BSD.... Thoughts? _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

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TUHS August 2009