TUHS February 2019

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by Doug McIlroy

> without those two we'd all be running M$ Windoze Apropos of which, I complained to Walter Isaacson about his writing them out of "The Innovators"--Turing Award, National Medal of Technology, Japan Prize and all. I suppose I should not be surprised that he didn't deign to answer. Doug

5 years, 10 months

Wanted: AT&T System V Release 3.2.{1,2,3} Source Code

by Seth J. Morabito

[Cross-posted from the 3B2 mailing list] Hi folks, I'm in search of source code for AT&T's System V Release 3.2.1, 3.2.2, and/or 3.2.3 for the 3B2. Does this exist? Has anyone ever seen it? Note that I'm not looking for the System V Release 3.2 Source Code Provision for the 3B2 /310 and /400 -- I already have that. It was absolutely invaluable when I was writing my 3B2/400 emulator. The reason I'm so keen on getting access is that I have ROM images from a 3B2/1000, and I'd like to add support for it to my 3B2 emulator. The system board memory map seems a bit different than the /300, /310, and /400. These max out at SVR 3.2. I can't imagine trying to add 3B2/1000 support without the 3.2.x source code. I imagine there's some tape image somewhere that's a delta of files that take you from 3.2 to 3.2.1, 3.2.2 or 3.2.3? -Seth -- Seth Morabito Poulsbo, WA, USA web(a)loomcom.com

5 years, 10 months

DEC and Dave Cutler (was Re: The John Snow's of the UNIX family)

by Paul Winalski

On 1/16/19, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling(a)kev009.com> wrote: > I’ve heard and personally seen a lot of technical arrogance and > incompetence out of the Masshole area. Was DEC inflicted? In > “Showstopper” Cutler fled to the west coast to get away from this kind of > thing. > Having worked at DEC from February 1980 until after the Compaq takeover, I would say that DEC may have exhibited technical arrogance from time to time, but certainly never technical incompetence. DEC's downfall was a total lack of skill at marketing. Ken Olsen believed firmly in a "build it and they will come" philosophy. Contrast this with AT&T's brilliant "Unix - consider it a standard" ad campaign. DEC also suffered from organizational paralysis. KO believed in decisions by consensus. This is fine if you can reach a consensus, but if you can't it leads to perpetually revisiting decisions and to obstructionist behavior. There was a saying in DEC engineering that any decision worth making was worth making 10 times. As opposed to the "lead, follow, or get out of the way" philosophy at Sun. Or Intel's concept of disagree and commit. DEC did move towards a "designated responsible individual" approach where a single person got to make the ultimate decision, but the old consensus approach never really died. Dave Cutler was the epitome of arrogance. On the technical side, he got away with it because his way (which he considered to be the only way) was usually at least good enough for Version 1, if not the best design. Cutler excelled in getting V1 of something out the door. He never stayed around for V2 of anything. He had a tendency to leave messes behind him. A Cutler product reminded me of the intro to "The Peabodys" segment of Rocky & Bullwinkle. A big elaborate procession, followed by someone cleaning up the mess with a broom. Cutler believed in a "my way or the highway" approach to software design. His move to the west coast was to place himself far enough away that those who wanted to revisit all his decisions would have a tough time doing so. On the personal side, he went out of his way to be nasty to people, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread. Although he was admired technically, nobody liked him. -Paul W.

5 years, 10 months

Fwd: Posters

by Warner Losh

Meant to reply all on this.... Warner ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [TUHS] Posters To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor(a)tnetconsulting.net> I'll take pictures tomorrow. No zeppelin though... I had hoped that I still had my ultrix version of Phil Figlio's original usenix artwork. I can find the Usenix one and the Unix one, but not that one online. Anybody have one they can share? Warner On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 7:32 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org wrote: > On 2/2/19 6:35 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > Is there any interest from this group in photos of any of these? > > I would be interested in pictures of the computer related pictures to > see if I'd be interested enough to pay for and / or for shipping on any > of them. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > >

5 years, 10 months

Re: [TUHS] OSI stack (Was: Posters)

by Norman Wilson

Noel Chiappa: {And apologies for the non-Unix content, but at least it's about computers, unlike all the postings about Jimmy Page's guitar; typical of the really poor S/N on this list.) ====== Didn't Jimmy Page's guitar use an LSI-11 running Lycklama's Mini-UNIX? And what was his page size? Norman Wilson Toronto ON

5 years, 10 months

Posters

by Warner Losh

I found 3 tubes of posters I'd been hoarding since college (well, since my first job after college). There's the usual 18-year-old-boy stuff (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc), but mixed in are a bunch of OSI/ISO network stack posters (thank goodness that didn't become standard, woof!), a couple movie posters, an 10th Anniversary poster for RT-11. The ones that will interest this group, maybe, are the Unix Feuds poster with the wizard among the waring armies, A 20th Anniversary of Unix poster by Tenon Intersystems which has a nice picture of Unix through 1990 or so (with Tenon's Mach^ten 1.0 for Macintosh derived from BSD 4.3 and Mach) on it. It's in decent share, but not in collector ready shape. Oh, and I have a Eunice poster that mixes the best of VMS and BSD 4.1 into a seamless environment. Is there any interest from this group in photos of any of these? Warner

5 years, 10 months

Re: [TUHS] Archeology: AberMUD, BCPL, ec.

by Doug McIlroy

> I have tried to OCR program listings before, with rather > poor results. I OCR'd a sizable manuscript written on a pretty shabby portable typewriter. I scanned each page twice, making sure to move the paper between scans. Then I ran both diff (by words, not lines) and spell to smoke out trouble. The word list for a program listing is quite short and easy to generate. (Print a list of all the apparent words and visually eliminate the nonsense.) And a spell check is an easy pipeline of standard utilities. doug

5 years, 10 months

Archeology: AberMUD, BCPL, ec.

by Richard Salz

Some folks are trying to figure out how to get AberMud source online and working; see https://twitter.com/larsbrinkhoff/status/1056823314272960512 Sample code at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/larsbrinkhoff/abermud/master/abermud1/tex…

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