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 received a link http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html claiming to
be about man pages; in fact, it's a lot more than that, including the
prehistory of troff. Interesting stuff.
Greg
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Hi. I announced this in comp.lang.awk in December and tried to BCC
the TUHS list but it didn't seem to happen. Here's the announcement
I posted.
Arnold
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From: arnold(a)skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk
Subject: AWKCC source now available
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:27:39 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <jcfdfr$qt9$1(a)dont-email.me>
[ BCC to TUHS list, Brian Kernighan & Chris Ramming ]
awk 'BEGIN { print "Sherman, set the wayback machine for 1988" }'
Hello All.
This note is to announce that through the valiant efforts of Brian Kernighan,
Alcatel-Lucent has been persuaded to make the source for awkcc available.
It can be found at:
https://open-innovation.alcatel-lucent.com/projects/awkcc
You have to register (no cost) before being able to download, but
it's easy. The license terms are at the site. It's a straightforward
"for personal use" kind of license.
For those who don't know, awkcc is an adaptation of Unix awk to translate
nawk programs into C. It was originally implemented by Chris Ramming (then
at Bell Labs, although no longer) circa 1988, and the source dist includes
some doc that Chris wrote.
Given how fast machines are these days, this program is mostly of
historical interest. But it's nice to have this bit of Unix / awk history
generally available. And, if you really need to turn an awk program into
C, this may provide a starting point.
Enjoy!
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Hi All.
I announceced this some years ago but it's been renewed, so I'll announce
it again.
In 2004 sometime I downloaded all the comp.sources stuff I could from
uunet.uu.net, which was still making it available for anonymous ftp.
I've made a tarball of it available from http://www.skeeve.com/Usenet.tar.bz2
Warren, if you don't have this in the TUHS archives, maybe you could add it?
Thanks,
Arnold
Hi,
For those who want to refresh old memories.
Hans Bezemer has made big progress as far as performance of qemu is
concerned. His specific experience concerns Coherent, but other old
unixes could use it.
Details can be found in comp.os.coherent news group
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.coherent/topics
The older tuhs message can be mentioned :
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2008-July/001815.html
I have also noticed , that Coherent boots well and is very fast in
newest virtualbox 4.1.8, running in XP.
Dell Optiplex 755 was used with Core 2 Duo.
Details can be found in forums for "Other quests"
http://www.virtualbox.org
It suggests , that other old Unixes could benefit in new virtualbox.
Regards
Andrzej
