> From: Lars Brinkhoff
> There was no 635 at Project MAC, was there?
I seem to recall reading about one. And in:
https://multicians.org/chrono.html
there's this entry: "08/65 GE 635 delivered to Project MAC". Clicking on the
'GE 635' link leads to "MIT's GE-635 system was installed on the ninth floor
of 545 Tech Square in 1965, and used to support a simulated 645 until the real
hardware was delivered."
Noel
The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group
will be highlighting the 50th anniversary on October 10,
November 14, and maybe in December.
http://www.dfwuug.org/wiki/Main/Welcome
I will be presenting about the early history next week
and then about BSD-specific history in November.
Any of you in the DFW area? Any suggestions on anyone local to invite? I
am also looking for anyone local who can display old hardware or
materials at the event. I only have some old books and training
materials from 1980's.
Does anyone have scanned copies of early Lions commentary? (Not the 2000
printing, unless it looks identical, please let me know.)
I will try to share my slides to this list by end of this week. (I did
look at an early draft of Warner's slides, but didn't look at his final
slides nor watch his presentation yet. My presentation is from scratch
for now.)
Jeremy C. Reed
echo Ohl zl obbx uggc://errqzrqvn.arg/obbxf/csfrafr/ | \
tr "Onoqrsuvxzabcefghl" "Babdefhikmnoprstuy"
> Was patent department that first used Unix on PDP-11 and roff (~1971)
> same department that would later handle Unix licensing two years later?
> (~1973)
No. The former was the BTL legal and patent department. The latter was
at AT&T (or perhaps Western Electric).
Doug
> From: Lars Brinkhoff
> Unfortunately it's very small.
There's a larger version hiding 'behind' it.
There are very few 645 images. There's the large painting of a 645, which
for many years hung in the hallway on the 5th floor of Tech Sq:
https://multicians.org/645artist.html
Noel
Hi, I remember that someone had recovered some ancient /etc/passwd files
and had decrypted(?) them, and I remember reading that either ken or
dmr's
password was something interesting like './,..,/' (it was entirely
punctuation characters, was around three different characters in total,
and
was pretty damn short). I've tried to find this since, as a friend was
interested in it, and I cannot for the life of me find it!
Do any of you remember or have a link? :)
Thanks!
--
"Too enough is always not much!"
OK. I've shared my slides for the talk.
Some of the family trees are simplified (V7 doesn't have room for all its
ports, for example)
Some of it is a little cheeseball since I'm also trying to be witty and
entertaining (we'll see how that goes).
Please don't share them around until after my talk on the September 20th
I'd like feedback on the bits I got wrong. Or left out. Or if you're in
this and don't want to be, etc.
All the slides after the Questions slide won't be presented and will likely
be deleted.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/177KxOif5oHARyIdZHDq-OO67_GVtMkzIAlD…
Please be kind (but if it sucks, please do tell). I've turned on commenting
on the slides. Probably best if you comment there.
I have a video of me giving this talk, but it's too rough to share...
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Warner
So my kid is using LaTex and I'd like to show him what troff can do.
For the record, back when he was born, 20 years ago, I was program
chair for Linux Expo (which sounds like a big deal but all it meant
was I had the job of formatting the proceedings). LaTex was a big
deal but I pushed people towards troff and the few people that took
the push came back and said "holy crap is this easy".
My kid is a math guy, does anyone have some eqn input and output
that they can share?
Thanks,
--lm
"why is the formatting so weird" someone asked me.
I am guessing, looking at RFC 1, that it was formatted with an
ancestor of runoff but ... anyone?
ron
> From: Warren Toomey
> All, I'm just musing where is the best place to store Unix
> documentation. My Unix Archive is really just a filesystem, so it's not
> so good to capture and search metadata.
> Is anybody using archive.org, gunkies or something else
BitSavers seems to be the canonical location for old computer documentation.
The CHWiki (gunkies.org) isn't really the best place to put original documentation,
but that's where I'd recommend putting meta-data. As for searching meta-data, are
you speaking of something more powerful than Google?
Noel
PS: Speaking of old Unix documentation, I recently acquired a paper copy of the
PDP-11 V6 Unix manual. Is that something I should scan? I don't know if you
already have it (I know where to find sources in the archives, but I don't
know where documentation scans live.)
> The scans for v0 code are in lowercase. I assume printed on TTY 37.
> But why is the early PDP-7 code in lowercase?
Once you've used a device with lower case, upper case looks as
offensive as a ransom note. I went through this in moving "up"
from Whirlwind to IBM's 704. By 1969, we'd all had lower-case
terminals in our homes for several years.
So Unix was ASCII from the start. Upper-case from a TTY 33 was converted
to lower. On the PDP-11, at least, there was an escape convention for
upper case. I believe the lower-case convention was explained in the
introduction. In particular if you logged in with an upper-case user
name, the terminal driver was set to convert everything to lower.
Remember, too, that 33's used yellow paper. For printing on white
we had use other machines that had full ASCII support.
Doug