Its register windows have spilled out into the SCRAP heap of history.
But to its credit, the SPARCSTATION represents PANTISOCRACY with NO RACIST PAST.
It ROASTS CATNIP for SATANIC SPORT with no PARTISAN COST.
It can create a CAT SOPRANIST with a CASTRATO SNIP.
-Don
Should have copied the list...
-----Original Message-----
From: William Pechter <pechter(a)gmail.com>
To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:59
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.
There was Xenix-86 which ran on the AT&T 6300, and IBM PC/XT. I ran it on an 8MHz NEC V30 cpu on the 6300. I would love to install it on my Panasonic Sr. Partner but lost the install key.
-----Original Message-----
From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:45
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SPARC is CRAPS spelled backwards.
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 02:21, Peter Jeremy <peter(a)rulingia.com> wrote:
>
> An 8-bit memory bus means half as many RAM chips and buffers. Keep in mind
> that the IBM 5150 was intentionally crippled to ensure it didn't compete
> with
> IBM's low-end minis.
>
Did the 5150 have a UNIX available anywhere near its launch date? I know
that it had DOS, CP/M-86, and the UCSD p-System relatively early on. It's
not clear to me whether Xenix ever supported the original PC; were there
other early porting efforts?
-Henry
> From: Tony Finch
> This paper has a nice survey of instruction set densities
And the winner is.... the PDP-11!
I'm not too surprised by this; back in the days of core memory (and limited,
at that - the first PDP-11's came standard with ... 8KB of memory :-), having
the denset possible code had real savings.
Noel
> From: Paul Winalski
> In general, a CISC instruction set encoding can express the same
> algorithm more compactly than a RISC instruction set.
I have often pointed to memory bandwidth as one of the key factors in the
evolution of CISC and RISC. When it was low, compared to CPU speeds (most of
the core era), CISC made sense. When it increased (with DRAM), RISC made more
sense, because it allowed CPUs to run faster (via simpler instructions).
Caching made the picture a little more complex; and today, with the incredible
mismatch between memory speeds and CPU speeds, caching dominates, whether you
have RISC or CISC.
Noel
Hi,
I'm hoping to run System V Release 1 on my pdp11/45, provided I can find
a controller that'll emulate one of the few disks it supports. I've been
looking around trying to find the installation manual to no avail. The
programmers manual, user's manual and error manual are all readily
available, but nothing about install aside from some anecdotal lines from a
simh install. Would anyone have a hint on where to find it or perhaps a
real copy to lend? Happy to scan and mail back if so.
thx
jake
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> [2] This is good enough because Australian ISPs don't believe in IPv6
If I go to a site that reports my IP address, I get IPv6 (I have a static
IPv4 address), which appears to be the default used by my router (a
Fastnet 5355 or something, which T$ appear to be unloading on us).
I tried asking T$ for a static IPv6 range, but was unable to find anyone
who even knew what I was talking about.
-- Dave
Today, a great scientist Dennis Ritchie was born, he did too much for humanity! I can't describe him in words, Dennis wishes you a happy birthday!
Caipenghui
Co-inventor of Unix, and sadly lost to us in 2011, he was born on this day
in 1941.
Thank you Dennis (and of course Ken), for that wonderful OS that we still
use to this day, and imitated by others.
-- Dave
> you can't tell me
> this system was designed with the idea of running it using text terminal
> and no mouse. There is also no cursor addressing, no curses.
The well named Curses and the associated vi were an ugly outgrowth
of glass screens--an outgrowth many of us in the Unix lab never
adopted. That branch of evolution was unrelated to the Blit branch that
essentially preserved the old TTY interface, except that one could have
multiple terminals on screen and a mouse was available to give mechanical
help for manual cut/paste/edit activities. Plan 9 terminal-handling
smoothly continued that evolutionary branch.
Mouse support could have been used to take off in a radical direction,
but it wasn't. To my mind, the primary innovation in Plan 9 was not
terminal support, nor everything-is-a-file. Rather it was an advance in
what Vyssotsky called "distributable computing", where components can
collaborate in a uniform way, no matter where they are. The key was the 9P
protocol that unpacked the notion of file type--a unifying principle
that brought simplicity and generality to a diversity of particulars.
Hello all,
I'm beta-testing a service I've set up to allow public access to a network of computers running System V UNIX Release 3.2. This is only tangentially related to RetroNet, and we hope to peer with them once RetroNet has UUCP peering going!
The network consists of three emulated 3B2/400s linked by UUCP, and connected to the Internet through a gateway system. E-mail (UUCP, UUCP-to-SMTP, and SMTP-to-UUCP) works in and out of the network.
There is a small private Net News setup running BNews for that true historic flair. All machines have access to the "retronet.*" news hierarchy. (There is no public Usenet access, sorry!)
If you're interested in reliving some UNIX history, consider signing up for an account. You'll be randomly assigned a home host in the network.
Account signup form is here:
https://loomcom.net/
Access is via SSH-to-Telnet gateway, by connecting to:
$ ssh access(a)loomcom.net
(No password is needed for the SSH gateway, it is a captive portal)
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA
web(a)loomcom.com
