Greetings,
What's the canonical source for patches to 2.9BSD and 2.11BSD?
I see we have 2.11BSD patch 469 dated last month in the archive. Where does
it come from? Has anybody climbed the hill to import all the patches into a
git repo? I've found some mirrors, but moe.2bsd.org has been down for me
for ages... How does Warren keep things up to date?
I also have a (maybe faulty) memory of a similar series of patches to
2.9BSD because it was the last BSD to support non-split I&D space …
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yet a quick google search turns up nothing other than a set of patches
dated August 1985 (also in our archive) and some changes for variants of
hardware (pro, mscp). Is that it?
Warner
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I came across a website that discusses reviving an old binary for Lotus 1-2-3 for SysV Unix (386 COFF), on the way to making it run on Linux:
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html
The audience here may enjoy the read, and maybe it is of use when reviving other old application software for 1980’s and 1990’s Unix.
The key part I think is this:
Quote:
"Yikes - it’s an original unstripped object file from 1-2-3. There are nearly 20,000 symbols including private symbols and debug information.…
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Why would Lotus ship this? It’s so big it must have required them to phyiscally ship an extra disk to every customer? Could it have been a mistake, accidentally left on the final release image?
I had so many questions, but I’m not old enough to have any experience with SysV, so I asked the greybeards on alt.folklore.computers if they had seen this before and why this might have happened.
The answer was that this is probably deliberate - dlopen() was not widely available on UNIX in the early 90s, so there was no easy way to load native plugins or extensions. To solve this, vendors would ship a bunch of partially linked object files with a script to relink them with your extensions – Clever!"
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The party also has a vintage AUTOMOBILE tester
If anyone knows of a car collector with a passion for such things
interested in a display piece
Or if you still have the first car you ever bought sitting in the garage
Link to posting attached.
https://cnj.craigslist.org/zip/d/hightstown-for-scrap-vintage-eico-888/7489…
I am in direct contact with the party offering these items.
They are all coming out of basement storage
On Sun, May 29, 2022, 8:53 AM Kenneth Goodwin <kennethgoodwin56(a)…
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wrote:
> No worries.
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2022, 12:04 AM John Sambrook <john(a)common-sense.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kenneth -
>>
>> Thank you for the pics.
>>
>> The tube tester appears to be just the meter from a whole tester.
>> Usually, a tube tester is about the size of a small suitcase and has a
>> number of different sockets on its front panel for testing different types
>> of tubes.
>>
>> One of the meters seems worthwhile, but at this time, I am going to
>> decline and hope that at least some of the gear can be salvaged.
>>
>> Thank you for the consideration.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On May 28, 2022, at 7:18 PM, Kenneth Goodwin <kennethgoodwin56(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> One thing
>>
>> Sort of looks like the tube checker might be missing a whole lot of the
>> rest of it.
>> Like an entire cabinet of stuff
>>
>> See photos
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2022, 10:11 PM Kenneth Goodwin <
>> kennethgoodwin56(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Everyone feel free to inquire around.
>>> If it all goes to one private party. Then at least they will know who to
>>> passing along to.
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 28, 2022, 7:45 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What about the rescue mailing list?
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 7:31 PM Ed Cashin <ecashin(a)noserose.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you don't get a response here, I wouldn't mind asking on the
>>>>> Heinbach subreddit. Just let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Heinbach is a musician who creates live and recorded music using lab
>>>>> equipment. He has a large following of inspired creators who would
>>>>> probably love to use this equipment.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 6:09 PM Kenneth Goodwin <
>>>>> kennethgoodwin56(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Details
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Knight Allied Radio volt meter 446-06235
>>>>>> 2) Precision Apparatus series 85 volt meter
>>>>>> 3) Weston Model 676 Tube checker
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Useful as display pieces
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Presumed to all be functional.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:06 PM Kenneth Goodwin <
>>>>>> kennethgoodwin56(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a party in Hightstown NJ
>>>>>>> Looking to donate them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Will follow up with specs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They already contacted the radio museum in Wall NJ
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I told them to try VCF since they should be a separate organization.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ed Cashin <ecashin(a)noserose.net>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
>>>>
>>>
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Hi,
I have noticed, that 2.11BSD is in all cases where I looked set
to "fast boot", which AFAIK means no fsck of at least /. I found
nobody talking about this or providing information about how to
change it to "slow boot" with a proper check, which is now normal.
Is there a reason why it is not possible to deactivate fast boot?
Or is it just that nobody bothered to do it?
Thanks
Matthias
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When You Find Out Your Normal Daily Lifestyle Is Called Quarantine
>> If you’re a *current* member of these societies then you should have good access to journal content.
>I believe this is true for ACM, but for IEEE not so much. You have to pay for a digital library membership _in addition to_ your standard membership
ACM is the same. At $99/year membership is a bargain by ordinary
professional society standards. But they charge an additional $99 for
access to 21st-century Digital Library.content.
Doug