On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Mario Premke wrote:
> Hello Gregg, thanks for your immediate response !
> I recently found the article 'Booting 7th Edition UNIX Images' on the
> 'vmsnet.pdp-11'-Newsgroups:
>
> <--- SNIP --->
>
> ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/sim/sources/
> ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/pub/PDP-11-sims/Supnik_2.2d/sources/
>
Try http://simh.trailing-edge.com
bill
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Hello Gregg, thanks for your immediate response !
I recently found the article 'Booting 7th Edition UNIX Images' on the
'vmsnet.pdp-11'-Newsgroups:
<--- SNIP --->
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/sim/sources/
ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/pub/PDP-11-sims/Supnik_2.2d/sources/
Once you get it, you have to compile the simulator. You also need to fetch
the 7th Edition UNIX disk images as well; they are available from the above
ftp sites in the software directory (i.e replace sources with software.
Unpack
the 7th Edition tarball in the same directory as the one you built the
simulator. The only file you require is disks/unix_v7_rl.dsk
<--- SNIP --->
What I wanted to say is that the above ftp-links are dead. You are right, I
should
look for the compressed tarball, but I don't know how the tarball is called
and
looking for 'unix_v7_rl.dsk' on google only leads to other dead links ...
Any hints ?
Mario Premke
----------
> Von: Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net>
> An: pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org
> Betreff: RE: [pups] Looking for binary distribution of v7
> Datum: Samstag, 16. November 2002 14:50
>
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> How do you mean by that? " The links pointing to the 'unix_v7_rl.dsk'
> image I found are dead ... :-(" You said. How so? As I recall, that file
> that's in there, for unix_v7_rl.dsk" is there, it's a totally different
> UNIX_v7 file name, you need to call it that for the E11 product. For
> SIMH, the full name as rendered by the extraction process from the
> compressed file works.
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pups-admin(a)minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:pups-admin@minnie.tuhs.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Mario Premke
> > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 8:25 AM
> > To: pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org
> > Subject: [pups] Looking for binary distribution of v7
> >
> > Hello,
> > I just read the instructions of how to boot a binary version 7 disk
> image
> > on a ersatz11 pdp11 emulator.
> > The links pointing to the 'unix_v7_rl.dsk' image I found are dead ...
> :-(
> > Are there any other sites where I can download this binary
> distribution ??
> >
> > BTW their are disk dumps of version 7 in the Caldera ancient unix
> archive
> > .. is it possible to boot
> > them on ersatz11 as well ? I tried it a few times without success ...
> > I simply tried it with the following e11.ini (from a newsgroup
> discussion),
> > because I heavily lack
> > PDP 11 hardware knowledge. Nevertheless trying this ini-file and many
> > variations I made of it all
> > end up in a blank emulator screen ...
> >
> > Any ideas will be appreciated
> >
> > Mario Premke
> >
> > ; Set up some terminal devices
> > assign tt0: f1
> > assign tt1: f2
> > set scroll hard
> > ; Make the CPU like an 11/45
> > set cpu dspace
> > set cpu dualregset
> > set cpu mmtraps
> > set cpu pirq
> > set cpu spl
> > set cpu supmode
> > set cpu cpuerr
> > set cpu csm
> > set cpu tstset
> > ; Get rid of unneeded device
> delays
> > set delay dl11 0=0 1=0
> > set delay rl11 0=0 1=0 2=0 3=0 4=0 5=0 6=0 7=0
> > ; Mount the RL02 disk image
> > mount dl0: v7_rl.dsk
> > ; and boot
> > boot dl0:
> >
> >
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Hello from Gregg C Levine
How do you mean by that? " The links pointing to the 'unix_v7_rl.dsk'
image I found are dead ... :-(" You said. How so? As I recall, that file
that's in there, for unix_v7_rl.dsk" is there, it's a totally different
UNIX_v7 file name, you need to call it that for the E11 product. For
SIMH, the full name as rendered by the extraction process from the
compressed file works.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pups-admin(a)minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:pups-admin@minnie.tuhs.org]
On
> Behalf Of Mario Premke
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 8:25 AM
> To: pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: [pups] Looking for binary distribution of v7
>
> Hello,
> I just read the instructions of how to boot a binary version 7 disk
image
> on a ersatz11 pdp11 emulator.
> The links pointing to the 'unix_v7_rl.dsk' image I found are dead ...
:-(
> Are there any other sites where I can download this binary
distribution ??
>
> BTW their are disk dumps of version 7 in the Caldera ancient unix
archive
> .. is it possible to boot
> them on ersatz11 as well ? I tried it a few times without success ...
> I simply tried it with the following e11.ini (from a newsgroup
discussion),
> because I heavily lack
> PDP 11 hardware knowledge. Nevertheless trying this ini-file and many
> variations I made of it all
> end up in a blank emulator screen ...
>
> Any ideas will be appreciated
>
> Mario Premke
>
> ; Set up some terminal devices
> assign tt0: f1
> assign tt1: f2
> set scroll hard
> ; Make the CPU like an 11/45
> set cpu dspace
> set cpu dualregset
> set cpu mmtraps
> set cpu pirq
> set cpu spl
> set cpu supmode
> set cpu cpuerr
> set cpu csm
> set cpu tstset
> ; Get rid of unneeded device
delays
> set delay dl11 0=0 1=0
> set delay rl11 0=0 1=0 2=0 3=0 4=0 5=0 6=0 7=0
> ; Mount the RL02 disk image
> mount dl0: v7_rl.dsk
> ; and boot
> boot dl0:
>
>
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Hello,
I just read the instructions of how to boot a binary version 7 disk image
on a ersatz11 pdp11 emulator.
The links pointing to the 'unix_v7_rl.dsk' image I found are dead ... :-(
Are there any other sites where I can download this binary distribution ??
BTW their are disk dumps of version 7 in the Caldera ancient unix archive
.. is it possible to boot
them on ersatz11 as well ? I tried it a few times without success ...
I simply tried it with the following e11.ini (from a newsgroup discussion),
because I heavily lack
PDP 11 hardware knowledge. Nevertheless trying this ini-file and many
variations I made of it all
end up in a blank emulator screen ...
Any ideas will be appreciated
Mario Premke
; Set up some terminal devices
assign tt0: f1
assign tt1: f2
set scroll hard
; Make the CPU like an 11/45
set cpu dspace
set cpu dualregset
set cpu mmtraps
set cpu pirq
set cpu spl
set cpu supmode
set cpu cpuerr
set cpu csm
set cpu tstset
; Get rid of unneeded device delays
set delay dl11 0=0 1=0
set delay rl11 0=0 1=0 2=0 3=0 4=0 5=0 6=0 7=0
; Mount the RL02 disk image
mount dl0: v7_rl.dsk
; and boot
boot dl0:
Hello,
I just read the instructions of how to boot a binary version 7 disk image
on a ersatz11 pdp11 emulator.
The links pointing to the 'unix_v7_rl.dsk' image I found are dead ... :-(
Are there any other sites where I can download this binary distribution ??
BTW their are disk dumps of version 7 in the Caldera ancient unix archive
. is it possible to boot
them on ersatz11 as well ? I tried it a few times without success ...
I simply tried it with the following e11.ini (from a newsgroup discussion),
because I heavily lack
PDP 11 hardware knowledge. Nevertheless trying this ini-file and many
variations I made of it all
end up in a blank emulator screen ...
Any ideas will be appreciated
Mario Premke
(Please, send a return mail to my E-Mail address, since I am not on the
list ..)
; Set up some terminal devices
assign tt0: f1
assign tt1: f2
set scroll hard
; Make the CPU like an 11/45
set cpu dspace
set cpu dualregset
set cpu mmtraps
set cpu pirq
set cpu spl
set cpu supmode
set cpu cpuerr
set cpu csm
set cpu tstset
; Get rid of unneeded device delays
set delay dl11 0=0 1=0
set delay rl11 0=0 1=0 2=0 3=0 4=0 5=0 6=0 7=0
; Mount the RL02 disk image
mount dl0: v7_rl.dsk
; and boot
boot dl0:
I recall a thread about this only a few months ago. Check out the TUHS mail archive - I seem to recall that someone had ported V7 to the x86 architecture. Me, I have a PDP-11/34 in my basement.... -- Ian
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From: Jesper Jacobsson [mailto:jesperjacobsson@yahoo.se]
Sent: Sat 11/9/2002 2:18 PM
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] port of old unices to i386?
Hi there.
I am a linux-user and I came across TUHS for the first time today
actually when I was searching google for old unices. I love linux and
am very interested in the history of unix. For some time I have wanted
to try out some early versions of unix as I am in my early 20's and was
born too late to have been around those days :( I havn't found any
people to ask about this till today :) Anyway, I browsed the
filearchive and I guess the distributions there surely won't work on my
computer. Is there a way to get them work on a i386 computer? Have
someone made any ports of an early unix system to i386 out of
nostalgia? If not, could someone take it on as a hobbyproject so that
new generations of unix-like-OS-users can explore it? It would be both
fun and also very educational to play around with I am sure.
I hope this email gets through and that I didn't annoy you guys.
I have not signed up for this list I just emailed tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
directly and hoped it would get through :) Please send replies to
jesperjacobsson(a)yahoo.se
Answers would be very appriciated!
Thanks in advance,
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Hi there.
I am a linux-user and I came across TUHS for the first time today
actually when I was searching google for old unices. I love linux and
am very interested in the history of unix. For some time I have wanted
to try out some early versions of unix as I am in my early 20's and was
born too late to have been around those days :( I havn't found any
people to ask about this till today :) Anyway, I browsed the
filearchive and I guess the distributions there surely won't work on my
computer. Is there a way to get them work on a i386 computer? Have
someone made any ports of an early unix system to i386 out of
nostalgia? If not, could someone take it on as a hobbyproject so that
new generations of unix-like-OS-users can explore it? It would be both
fun and also very educational to play around with I am sure.
I hope this email gets through and that I didn't annoy you guys.
I have not signed up for this list I just emailed tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
directly and hoped it would get through :) Please send replies to
jesperjacobsson(a)yahoo.se
Answers would be very appriciated!
Thanks in advance,
Jesper
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Hi Mitch,
you'll find the program enblock.c at
http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/v6/
that I wrote to prepare the v6 distribution tape for SIMH.
With v7, you need to apply different block sizes like (f0, f1, ... f6 from Keith Bostic):
enblock <f0 >dist.tap
enblock <f1 >>dist.tap
...
enblock <f4 >>dist.tap
enblock 10240 <f5 >>dist.tap
enblock 10240 <f6 >>dist.tap
enblock </dev/null >>dist.tap
Enblock puts an EOF tapemark at the end. The last invocation puts an EOT mark.
Have fun,
Wolfgang
----- Forwarded message from Jorn Barger -----
From: jorn(a)enteract.com (Jorn Barger)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 04:09:15 -0700
I'm not a PUPS subscriber, but I've been browsing the archives and I
wonder if you know anything about this?
In an old Byte (Jan 1981, p200) Sol Libes wrote:
> "UNIX-Like Operating Systems Increasing In Popularity:
> Several software suppliers are now offering UNIX-like
> operating systems that may rival CP/M. The first
> UNIX-like software package, called TYNIX, was released
> for LSI-11 and Heath H-11 systems in 1978 by the
> Boston Children's Museum..."
My guess is that this was Heinz Lycklama's unreleasable LSI-Unix (LSX),
and I've written him to enquire, but haven't heard back yet.
[ you're probably right, but I'd assume that it was a
binary-only release - Warren ]
I'm working on a detailed timeline of Linux prehistory, so I'm also
following your Xenix explorations. I'd really like to know who did the
first x86 Xenix, HCR or MS?
[ I thought it was HCR too, but I could be wrong - Warren ]
----- End of forwarded message from Jorn Barger -----
Hi Folks,
Does anyone know how to build a full distribution tape in Simh format? Or am I over looking something simple? I can boot and run the root RL02 image but would like install the full system. Would like to do the same for the 4.3 and the VAX Simh.
Thanks, Mitch
"Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
> I'll leave it to others to describe the early days. The Berkeley
> Software License Agreement, generally called the BSD license, is
> pretty straightforward, though.
Wrong. The Berkeley Software License Agreement and what is known today as the
"BSD license" are two different things. The latter is the liberal header
Berkeley started prepending around 1988 to files that were totally theirs
without any Bell Labs code. The former was the paper license that went with the
4.3BSD and earlier tapes where Bell, Bell/Berkeley, and pure Berkeley parts
were not distinguished and the entire system could be used only by holders of
UNIX source licenses from AT&T. Although I've never seen it myself, the
Berkeley Software License Agreement could not have been like the liberal
header, it surely had stuff in it telling you that if you share it with anyone,
you must first verify that the recipient has a UNIX source license from AT&T,
etc.
MS
Marco Robado <mar.roba(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
> I would like
> to give examples of a license on which the source of a software was
> delivered in the 70's.
I have the paper license for System V issued by AT&T to Case Western Reserve
University, the famous UNIX source license. I have it buried somewhere in my
papers. If you want it, I can dig it up and fax or snail-mail you a copy.
(Sorry, no scanning. I use the computing technology from the days in question
exclusively.)
> For BSD I found in the
> source of 2.11BSD a reference to "The Berkeley software license
> Agreement"
Yep, same for 4BSD.
> but I don't have a copy of that document.
I don't either.
MS
Hi, I am curently writing an article about the history of open source. I
know all you can find on the Internet about the history of unix and BSD
and the conflict between these two when BSD decided to opensource. But I
could never find a copy of both licenses in the early days. I would like
to give examples of a license on which the source of a software was
delivered in the 70's. I browsed thru the sources of unix v5 and the
only copyright I found was in the code of the c compiler and it just
stated that it was copyrighted by Bell labs in 1972. I would think that
there was some kind of hard copy copyright that came with the tape on
wich the sources were originaly delivered. For BSD I found in the
source of 2.11BSD a reference to "The Berkeley software license
Agreement" but I don't have a copy of that document. I would appreciate
if someone would communicate with me by e-mail or thru this list to give
me some info about all that.
-M.R.-
This was for older PDP's like the 11, wasn't it? I have a Vaxstation
3100. I do have the SIMH PHP simulator running which can simulate an 11,
but I haven't done anything with it.
Richard.
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The original question (from Ian KIng) was
> I'm looking for a copy of the C reference manual from some time between
> the 6th Edition (1975) and the first version that came with 4.3BSD
> (1986).
Some offered pointers to the 6th edition version (which is around
both at TUHS and also on my own home page.)
Norman observed that the standard V7 tapes omitted
the C manual from the documentation set, because
of the publication of K&R 1. However, it turns out
that in our own paper-published version of the 7th
edition, the then-current spec (very nearly
what became Appendix A of K&R 1) was indeed
printed. Probably some of these manuals were distributed
to people who got the tapes at that point.
The printed 7th edition also included a 1-page "Recent Pages
to C" addendum, describing the enum type, and
also confirming that structure assignment plus passing
and receiving structures to functions (promised for the
future in K&R 1) were available. At some point there
may have been an updated version of this--I don't have
it--confirming that the compiler now, indeed, treated
same-named members of different structures as distinct and
non-interfering.
I retyped this addendum, and it's now on my home page.
More lately, Aharon pointed out that SCO had offered
a (for-fee) fairly complete distribution of System III
under an Ancient Unix license, and was kind enough
to send it to me. It includes (under the name c_man)
a version that looks to be just about the same as
the version with the internal 7th edition.
This also includes the "Recent Changes" as an addendum.
(Amusingly, the enum example switches a color in its
example: "winedark" to "puce". I don't know who did this;
it could have been me!).
Another interesting complication I turned up in
investigating this is that Brian and I seem to have lost
the machine-readable source for the actual
Appendix A of K&R 1! (The rest of the text is still
around).
But to turn back to the original question: aside
from the "Recent Changes" page, and perhaps
some tweaking of the table of supported machines
and perhaps a few other fairly minor things,
there wasn't any significantly differing local C Reference
Manual between 7th ed / K&R 1, up to the ANSI
1989 standard. However, I should try to retrieve
what went into 4.3BSD-- I don't have a complete
copy of it.
Dennis
Norman Wilson recalled
> 22. Pike, R. "The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal". _AT&T Bell
> Laboratories Technical Journal 63_, 8 (Oct. 1984).
> Rob described an earlier version of the Blit work in a USENIX talk
> at USENIX in January 1982 (Santa Monica CA). So far as I know it
> was just a talk, no paper, though he showed a canned demo on video
> tape.
By coincidence, one of the two videos made about early Blit
work is newly available in .mpg format: look near the
bottom of Rob Pike's page under Movies:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rob/index.html
This was just now done by Gerard Holzmann.
Be aware that it is 43MB in size.
This version is spoken by actors, although the script
is Rob's.
The other Blit video is in Betacam format, and we don't
currently have a player for it, so it's not digitized.
I think it's silent, and presumably Rob talked during its
showing. This might be what accompanied the Usenix talk.
(By the way, there are two other, twice-as large
videos there: the Labscam tape, and Rob's appearance
on the David Letterman TV show with Penn and Teller.)
Dennis
If anyone has one of the SCO Ancient Unix licenses and a copy of the
archive that went with it, then they legally have the source to System
III. If such a person extracts sys3.tar.gz and looks in usr/src/man/docs
they'll find a file named `c_man' with the actual manual in it. I quote:
...
.SH "1. INTRODUCTION"
.PP
This manual
.FS
.ps +1
\(dg This manual is reprinted, with minor changes, from
.I "The C Programming Language"
by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie,
Prentice Hall, Inc., 1978.
.ps
.FE
describes the C language
...
What the legalities are of redistributing this, and/or generating
postscript from it, are, I don't know. Similar questions apply
to scanning in the ref man from a copy of K&R-I, which is now
out of print. (I wish Caldera had included System III in their
releasing of Ancient Unix. Sigh.)
I hope this helps, some.
Arnold
P.S. Completely unrelated, but I find it really cool how much of
the System III doc refers to C and Unix on the System/370...
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] C reference manual
> From: norman(a)nose.cs.utoronto.ca (Norman Wilson)
> To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:13:22 -0400
>
> To forestall those who haven't looked: the good news is that
> the papers from Volume 2 of the manual were included in /usr/doc
> on the V7 tape; the bad news is that the C Reference Manual was
> omitted. Here is /usr/doc/cman in its entirety:
>
> Sorry, but for copyright reasons, the source
> for the C Reference Manual is not distributed.
>
> Presumably the problem was that the Reference Manual was published
> as part of the a real book in 1978.
>
> I forget just what Tony was after in the first place, but maybe
> some of the stuff on Dennis Ritchie's home page will help:
> http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html
> In particular the Sixth Edtion version of the C Reference Manual
> is there.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
The machine which hosts this mailing list is scheduled to be down over the
Australian weekend due to power problems. It should be up on Monday
morning Australian time.
Warren
To forestall those who haven't looked: the good news is that
the papers from Volume 2 of the manual were included in /usr/doc
on the V7 tape; the bad news is that the C Reference Manual was
omitted. Here is /usr/doc/cman in its entirety:
Sorry, but for copyright reasons, the source
for the C Reference Manual is not distributed.
Presumably the problem was that the Reference Manual was published
as part of the a real book in 1978.
I forget just what Tony was after in the first place, but maybe
some of the stuff on Dennis Ritchie's home page will help:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html
In particular the Sixth Edtion version of the C Reference Manual
is there.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
I have an original (in print) of the C reference manual from Unix 6th Ed, as
part of a multipart binder titled "Documents for Use With the Unix
Timesharing System", as well as the "UNIX Programmer's Manual", which is a
print copy of the man pages. I could probably scan the C ref in my copious
spare time, if you're not in a hurry. Warren, do you want to archive stuff
like this? -- Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Finch [mailto:dot@dotat.at]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:10 PM
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: dot(a)dotat.at
Subject: [TUHS] C reference manual
I'm looking for a copy of the C reference manual from some time between
the 6th Edition (1975) and the first version that came with 4.3BSD
(1986). The stuff in the TUHS archive mostly seems to be missing the
documentation sets, or in the case of the earlier BSDs they are ommitted
for copyright reasons. There are some tutorials dating from about 1979
but they aren't much use.
Any help would be appreciated.
Tony.
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Hallo,
Most, if not all, of the V6-docs was distributed with V6 as troff sources.
At
http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/
you'll find postscript versions of these docs.
Have fun,
Wolfgang
This is certainly non-technical UNIX history, which is not to
say it isn't interesting.
I can sharpen up a few details of Dennis's account. Peter was
already a department head when I first visited the Labs in early
1984. I believe his face was already a favourite test image for
various graphics experts, but the cult of the face didn't really
get started until the following year.
In particular I think it was in the summer of 1985 that Tom Duff
thought of the deathstar transform (turning a picture into variable-
width horizontal stripes, as the AT&T logo to a highlighted sphere).
Certainly it was later that year that the much-bigger-than-life
image appeared on the water tower: my calendar file still says
sep 16 btl water tower 1985
Peter was still a department head at that time; he didn't climb
further into management until about 1990.
As I recall, the water tower remained painted for a couple of days.
A two-man team from the Physical Plant department finally covered it
over: one man in overalls wielding paint, another in suit and tie
watching to be sure no trace remained.
Lest people get the wrong idea, Peter took no offense at the
overuse of his face. In fact a few years later he agreed to
have a plaster cast made. Someone (Duff?) then made a latex
positive from the plaster negative, intending to digitize it
somehow into a three-dimensional model. I don't know if that
ever happened, but I did borrow the latex one day, used it to
generate another negative in ice, and cast a large chocolate
truffle which I then set out in the UNIX Room (as the group's
common terminal room was called) for all to enjoy.
That may have been the only really interesting use of the 3d
face. In any case the plaster cast was presented to me when
I left the Labs in 1990, and I still have it, though I haven't
done anything with it since.
There were also some smaller stencils made of the same deathstar-
Peter face. (In fact I have it on good authority that the big
one was made by projecting one of the smaller ones on a wall.)
When Bell Labs bought a Cray X-MP in 1986 or 1987 (my records aren't
that complete), one of our group made several visits to Cray to
get a head start on a special network interface we would need.
He took along one of the small stencils and put a few Peter faces
on panels that were normally covered up when the machine was running.
(The Cray was to be shared by Research and the Comp Center, and the
Comp Center were a bit stuffier.) To everyone's surprise, when the
machine arrived it bore no extra decorations. Presumably Cray shipped
the painted system to another customer; we never found out who.
The Computing Science Research Center was a fun place to work.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
Lehey wondered:
> .... can
> you shed any light on the "Peter Weinberger stencil" incident? ...
> Somebody came across the idea of
> making a large stencil of his face in death-star like technology,
> and used it to paint an image of him on a nearby water tower.
> Allegedly the costs were charged to Peter's department.
> Some years later, this stencil arrived in Greg Rose's office in
> Australia from an anonymous sender. Greg has a suspicion who the
> sender was, but no proof, so he doesn't want to comment. He gave it
> to our own Warren Toomey, who still has it in his garage.
> At some point, Peter Salus suggested that the image was of Rob Pike...
I could recover some of the dates, but
not accurately from memory. Weinberger was promoted,
first to department head, then to being director of a
newly-created but next-door center, then to our own
executive director. This would have been mid-late 80s,
early 90s. He was being groomed, it appears.
Shortly before trivestiture, 1994ish, he went to
the business part of AT&T, possibly in preparation
for coming back to a higher management position
at the Labs. When the Lucent/AT&T split occurred
he was somewhat caught on the AT&T side.
He ended up leaving AT&T and going to a financial
quant company.
His image was particularly striking, and was used
to kid him in various ways, e,g, as a default image
in mail icons. The image rendering his
face with the Deathstar styling was done by
Tom Duff, and it appeared, for example, on
T-shirts worn publically at venues like Usenix
and elsewhere. Other versions of it
appear inscribed in concrete now buried
beneath floors at the Labs. There is a
bitmap version (rendered in 1cm magnets) of the
full image, not death-starred, high on
a steel wall above a landing on a nearby
stairwell.
The large stencilled image of the Deathstar/PJW
rendition did indeed appear suddenly one day on
a water tower; it must have been about 10 feet
tall. Kernighan had a photo of it, and Gerard
Holzmann just scanned it:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/pix/watertower.jpg
It was painted over quite rapidly,
a couple of days at most. (The tower itself
is now gone, though not because of this.)
The image was certainly not of Rob Pike.
After this happened, a voucher was pinned up
on a communal corkboard, claiming expenses
for several cans of blue spray paint. The voucher
was signed by one G. R. Emlin, a fictitious personage
with his (later her) own history. Attached to
it was a handwritten note from our then Executive
Director (Vic Vyssotsky) saying approximately
as follows:
Unfortunately, this voucher cannot be
approved by me; I am not empowered
to approve Real Estate improvements.
If Mr. Emlin would like to arrange a transfer
to the Building and Grounds department,
I would be happy to assist.
So: who did it? If Greg Rose suspects certain
aviation-inclined buddies, I in turn think his
suspicions are likely to be well-founded.
I managed to retrieve the image used to create the stencil;
it's now linked-to near the bottom of
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/10thEdMan/v2pix.html
Dennis
I'm looking for a copy of the C reference manual from some time
between the 6th Edition (1975) and the first version that came
with 4.3BSD (1986). The stuff in the TUHS archive mostly seems to
be missing the documentation sets, or in the case of the earlier
BSDs they are ommitted for copyright reasons. There are some
tutorials dating from about 1979 but they aren't much use.
Any help would be appreciated.
Tony.
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