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Re: [TUHS] Deleted lib1 and lib2 in v6, recoverable?

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Warren Toomey > I just tried it here. I had to do: > ... > ar r ../lib1 *.o > ... > to get them to rebuild. Otherwise, I had empty libraries. Duhh. I never noticed the missing "*.o"! I wonder how that one slipped through? Looking at 'run', it really does look like it was used to prepare the systems on the distribution tape. So probably the libraries just happened to already hold the latest and greatest, so that error had no effect. The thing with needing to order the library contents properly to cause all the modules to get loaded is, I reckon, the reason why 'ar' has those arguments to specify where in the archive a given file goes. Noel

6 years, 7 months

Deleted lib1 and lib2 in v6, recoverable?

by Will Senn

So... I whacked /usr/sys/lib1 and lib2 ‘accidentally’ meaning I logged in as bin changed to /usr/sys and typed rm lib1 and rm lib2 :). Now, I was thinking at the time that I could regenerate them... this seems like a possibility, but I can’t seem to get them back. sh run as bin doesn’t do it. So, what magic incantation is required to rebuild them. What motivated the exploration was a desire to modify main.c and see those changes manifest. Help. Thanks, Will Sent from my iPhone

6 years, 7 months

Happy birthday, John von Neumann!

by Dave Horsfall

We gained John von Neumann on this day in 1903, and if you haven't heard of him then you are barely human... As computer science goes, he's right up there with Alan Turing. There is speculation that he knew of Babbage's work; see https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/10828/the-relation-between-bab… . -- Dave

6 years, 7 months

NFS & Kerberos woes...

by Grant Taylor

Do any fellow TUHS subscribers have any experience with NFS, particularly in combination with Kerberos authentication? I'm messing with something that is making me think that Kerberos authentication (sec=krb5{,i,p}) usurps no_root_squash. Meaning that root can't access files owned by other users with go-rwx. Almost as if no_root_squash wasn't configured on the export. Does anyone have a spare bone that they would be willing to throw my way? -- Grant. . . . unix || die

6 years, 7 months

Re: [TUHS] Usenix: no official Unix 50th celebration, (yet)

by Norman Wilson

I thought I read a different email saying that there will be a track about the 50th anniversary. But cannot find any details or reference to it now. Does anyone have information about Unix 50th celebration(s)? Is it time for paper submissions? ... ==== If you mean for the 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, the CFP is https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/call-for-papers The submission deadline is about three weeks away, on 2019-01-10. I see nothing explicit about a UNIX 50th celebration, alas. At least one program-committee member is on this list; perhaps more information will appear. Or there's a contact address for the program co-chairs on the web page cited above. Norman Wilson Toronto ON

6 years, 7 months

Usenix: no official Unix 50th celebration, apparently

by Warren Toomey

Hi all, I've just heard that the Usenix board of directors do not want to explicitly celebrate the 50th anniversary of Unix. It's been suggested that we, the TUHS members, both lobby the board and also offer our assistance to help organisation such a celebration. Who, on the list, would put their hands up to help organising something that coincided with the 2019 Usenix ATC in July 2019? I'd like to get the bare bones of an organising team, then approach the Usenix board, offer our help and ask them to support us. What do you think? 11 months to go. Thanks, Warren P.S. Nokia Bell Labs are also going to organise something, possibly a month earlier but I have no solid details yet.

6 years, 7 months

Pdp11 implementations on fpga in 2018

by Will Senn

Hi folks, This is a little sideways from on topic, but no too far. Is there a good open source implementation of a pdp11 for fpga in verilog/vhdl that works well for Unix v6+? Google turns up a number, but I’m hoping some of y’all have actual experience with one that you could recommend over others. I’m financially challenged so it’s a requirement that it run on cheap fpga’s not some Tesla prototype :) Regards, Will Sent from my iPhone

6 years, 7 months

Archive(s) of old academic papers?

by Warren Toomey

Hi all, also an off-topic question. I got a private e-mail from a person who has been trying to collect old academic papers from the CompSci/IT field. Does anybody know of an existing archive for old CS/IT papers? Thanks, Warren

6 years, 8 months

Travesty Generators

by Wesley Parish

Hi One of the reasons I enjoy emacs is Meta-X dissociated-press, which turns the most turgid bureaucratic prose into something truly worth reading. Has anybody documented or provided a timeline for the emergence of the Travesty Generator? (I know that text processing was one of the major focuses of university research, as opposed to the more utilitarian focuses of the scientific computing or corporate record keeping areas. One early CompSci book I got from a second-hand booksellers in Christchurch before the earthquakes, had a nice section on SNOBOL.) So who wrote the first Travesty Generator/s?

6 years, 8 months

Mt Xinu manual scanning finished

by Al Kossow

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mtXinu

6 years, 8 months

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