ACPI has 4-byte identifiers (guess why!), but I just wondered, writing some
assembly:
is it globl, not global, or glbl, because globl would be a one-word
constant on the PDP-10 (5 7-bit bytes)?
Not entirely off track, netbsd at some point (still does?) ran on the
PDP-10.
> "BI" fonts can, it seems, largely be traced to the impact
> of PostScript
There was no room for BI on the C/A/T. It appeared in
troff upon the taming of the Linotron 202, just after v7
and five years before PostScript.
> Seventh Edition Unix shipped a tc(1) command to help
> you preview your troff output with that device before you
> spent precious departmental money sending it to the
> actual typesetter.
Slight exaggeration. It wasn't money, It was time and messing
with …
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lot of typesetter film and developer for the price of a 4014.
Doug
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yeah that was the one that id' first mentioned.
Although I was more so interested in when/where the 386 PCC came from
Seems at best all those sources are locked away.
____
| From: Angus Robinson
| To: Jason Stevens
| Cc: TUHS main list
| Sent: March 25, 2024 09:17 AM
| Subject: Re: [TUHS] 386 PCC
|
|
| Is this it ?
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20071017025542/http://pcc.l
| udd.ltu.se/
|
| Kind Regards,
| Angus Robinson
|
|
| On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 2:13?AM Jason Stevens <
| …
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|
|
| I'd been on this whole rabbithole exploration thing of
| those MIT PCC 8086
| uploads that have been on the site & on bitsavers, it
| had me wondering is
| there any version of PCC that targeted the 386?
|
| While rebuilding all the 8086 port stuff, and MIT
| PC/IP was fun, it'd be
| kind of interesting to see if anything that ancient
| could be forced to work
| with a DOS Extender..
|
| I know there was the Anders Magnusson one in 2007,
| although the site is now
| offline. But surely there must have been another one
| between 1988/2007?
|
| Thanks!
|
|
|
|
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I'd been on this whole rabbithole exploration thing of those MIT PCC 8086
uploads that have been on the site & on bitsavers, it had me wondering is
there any version of PCC that targeted the 386?
While rebuilding all the 8086 port stuff, and MIT PC/IP was fun, it'd be
kind of interesting to see if anything that ancient could be forced to work
with a DOS Extender..
I know there was the Anders Magnusson one in 2007, although the site is now
offline. But surely there must have been another …
[View More]one between 1988/2007?
Thanks!
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Not that I'm looking for drama but any idea what happened?
Such a shame it just evaporated.
____
| From: arnold(a)skeeve.com
| To: tuhs@tuhs.org;jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com
| Cc:
| Sent: March 25, 2024 08:46 AM
| Subject: Re: [TUHS] 386 PCC
|
|
| Jason Stevens <jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
|
| > I know there was the Anders Magnusson one in 2007,
| although the site is now
| > offline.
|
| A mirror of that work is available at
| https://github.com/…
[View More]arnoldrobbins/pcc-revived.
| It's current as of the last time the main site was
| still online,
| back in the fall of 2023.
|
| Magnusson has more than once said he's working to get
| things back
| online, but nothing has happened yet. I check weekly.
|
| FWIW,
|
| Arnold
|
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Hi Everyone,
I’m cleaning the office and I have the following free books available first-come, first-served (just pay shipping).
“Solaris Internals.” Richard McDougall and Jim Mauro. 2007 Second Edition. 1020pp hardbound. (2 copies)
“Sun Performance and Tuning - Java and the Internet.“ Adrian Cockcroft and Richard Pettit. 1998 Second Edition. 587pp softbound.
“DTrace - Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, MacOSX, and FreeBSD.” Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro. 2011. 1115 pp softbound. (2 …
[View More]copies)
“Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability.” Scott Jesse, Bill Burton, & Bryan Vongray. 2011 Second Edition. 515pp softbound.
“Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - The Complete Reference.” Michael Jang, Harry Foxwell, Christine Tran, & Alan Formy-Duval. 2013. 582pp softbound. (12 copies). NOTE, this is an older edition not the one covering 11.2.
“Strategies for Real-Time System Specification.” Derek Hatley & Imtiaz Pirbhai. 1988. 386pp hardbound.
“Mathematica.” Stephen Wolfram. 1991 Second Edition. 961pp hardbound. (Anyone want to save this from the landfill?)
Please send me mail off-list with your name and address and I’ll let you know shipping cost.
I expect to have additional books later this year.
Regards,
Stephen
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> From: Rich Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com <mailto:rich.salz@gmail.com>>
>> Don't forget the Imagen's
>>
>
> What, no Dover "call key operator"? :) (It was a Xerox product based on
> their 9700 copier.)
Actually, it was based on a Xerox 7000:
"The Dover is strip-down [sic] Xerox 7000 Reduction Duplicator. All optical system, electronics, contact relays, top harness, control console and related components are eliminated from the Xerox 7000. The paper …
[View More]feeder, paper transports, engines, solenoid, paper path sensing switches and related components are not disturbed. …"
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/dover/dover.pdf
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Evenin' all...
I have a vague recollection that /dev/tty8 was the console in Edition 5
(we only used it briefly until Ed 6 appeared), but cannot find a reference
to it; lots of stuff about Penguin/OS though...
Something to do with 0-7 being the mux, so "8" was left (remember that
/dev/tty and /dev/console didn't exist back then), mayhaps?
Thanks.
-- Dave
> There was lawyerly concern about the code being stolen.
Not always misplaced. There was a guy in Boston who sold Unix look-alike
programs. A quick look at the binary revealed perfect correlation with our
C source. Coincidentally, DEC had hired this person as a consultant in
connection with cross-licensing negotiations with AT&T. Socializing at
the end of a day's negotiations, our lawyer somehow managed to turn the
conversation to software piracy. He discussed a case he was working …
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and happened to have some documents about it in his briefcase. He pulled
out a page disassembled binary and a page of source code and showed them to
the consultant.
After a little study, the consultant confidently opined that the binary was
obviously compiled from that source. "Would it surprise you," the lawyer
asked, "if I told you that this is yours and that is ours?" The consultant
did not attend the following day's meeting.
Doug
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