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
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
>If the original BBN code had
>been left alone, since most people did not have the issues Berkeley did,
>they would never have bothered with sendmail.cf.
Now I might be badly wrong, but nonetheless this strikes me as
badly revisionist history.
The motivation for sendmail.cf was the collision of multiple
namespaces (Arpanet, Bitnet, Usenet, etc.), each implemented
in varying nonstandard ways by different mail clients and servers,
resulting in messes like "IJQ3SRA%UCLAMVS.BITNET%SU-LINDY(a)SU-CSLI.ARPA",
as one of many, many examples, as observed in the famous
"The Hideous Name", Rob Pike & P.J. Weinberger, 1985
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/pike85hideous.pdf
The thing is, although sendmail.cf was/is itself hideous to understand
and therefore make maintenance changes to (although I have), it is
quite capable of actually handling the above kinds of messes, and
being extended to handle new messes as they turn up.
In short, it got the job done, despite its weaknesses.
I may be wrong, but it was my strong impression that, back in the
day, this could not be said of anyone else's code, BBN or otherwise.
Doug Merritt
I am reading the delivermail (later known as postbox and then sendmail)
code from 4.0BSD and from sccs history from June 1980.
Its arpa-mailer(8) manual says it just spools the letter and actual
delivery will be performed by the ARPANET mailer daemon and refers to
mailer(ARPA) manual. The arpa.c code says "is stuck away in the
outgoing arpanet mail queue for delivery by the true arpanet mailer."
Where is this true arpanet mailer? I am guessing it periodically looks
in /usr/spool/netmail/ and delivers the messages using FTP and RFC458.
Where is this mailer(ARPA) manual?
Where is the ftp server code used for the incoming mail? (Example
code mail-dm.c is provided for the ftp server to "handle the MAIL <user>
command over the command connection.")
Also where is the uucp-mailer(8) manpage referenced in delivermail(8)?
Jeremy C. Reed
echo 'EhZ[h ^jjf0%%h[[Zc[Z_W$d[j%Xeeai%ZW[ced#]dk#f[d]k_d%' | \
tr '#-~' '\-.-{'
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 04:55:58PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Kashtan's VMS performance comparison paper and Joy's followup from early
> 1980 both refered to the VM/UNIX as Version 2.1 of the Berkeley system;
> this was the "Third" distribution; by April the kernel was known as 3.1.
>
> 2.4BSD was mentioned in the kermit source's Makefile. But maybe a
> mistake.
I stand well corrected!
Thanks,
Warren
Just saw this on the ClassicCMP list. Wonder if anyone could read it out... or if it's actually something that's already out there.
--Dave
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Chuck Guzis <cclist(a)sydex.com>
> Subject: 4.3BSD source tape offered on FreeBSD
> Date: November 25, 2013 at 2:29:19 PM EST
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=43346
