Another one i would be interested to know more of.
whilst at college i used an inter data 3210 running edition 7, which was version 7 with bits of 2.1 bsd (very much from memory).
there was an editor on that machine i have never seen or heard of since - le. it was a visual editor, and i think supported multiple windows, of termcap style.
anyone know more?
-Steve
While we are on the topic of old Unix editors,
I once made Caltech qed build again:
https://github.com/chneukirchen/qed-caltech
Also, I've been trying to contact David Tilbrook, who maintains(-ed?)
his own version of qed, without success. I got an evaluation copy of
his QEF build system, which contains a bit of documentation about it,
but no binary.
Perhaps someone here can help out, or knows more?
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen(a)gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
In the autumn of 1984 as an undergrad at Durham University (UK) I
remember using a Pascal compiler (pc) on a BSD4.1 system (bumped after
several months to 4.1c and running I would guess on a small VAX?) and
using a strange line editor (probably because the terminal had crude
screen handling capabilities?).
I can't remember much about it other than it seemed to resemble ex. I
think I was told it was written in the UK and doing some Googling
suggests it may have been "em" (Editor for Mortals) from Queen Mary
College.
However, the time frame for that editor was late 70s and it would have
been quite old by 1984. So my current theory is that it was a fork
(maybe with a different name) or later version?
Anyone use this editor or anything similar around 1984?
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4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com>
Apologies if this is already on the list somewhere.
What's the best way to transfer files in and out of the simh 4.3BSD Wisc
version? I can do it with tape files, but it seems like FTP or ssh or
NFS ought to be possible, and none is behaving at first blush.
Also, what's the recommended way to shut down the system? I shutdown
now to single user, then sync a few times, then ^E, but when I boot
again I get fsck errors serious enough to require a manual fsck (which
generally works fine.)
Thanks,
Mary Ann
All, in the 25 years of running this list, generally things have gone
well and I've not had to make many unilateral decisions. But today I
have chosen to unsubscribe Joerg Schilling from the list.
I'm sending this e-mail in so that there is a level of transparency here.
I've sent Joerg an e-mail outlining my reasons.
Cheers, Warren
The Internet (spelled with a capital "I", please, as it is a proper noun)
was born in 1969, when RFC-1 got published; it described the IMP and
ARPAnet.
As I said at a club lecture once, there are many internets, but only one
Internet.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
> From: Mary Ann Horton
> What's the best way to transfer files in and out of the simh 4.3BSD Wisc
> version? I can do it with tape files, but it seems like FTP or ssh or
> NFS ought to be possible, and none is behaving at first blush.
Someone should add the equivalent of Ersatz-11's 'DOS' device to SIMH; it's a
pseudo-device that can read files on the host filesystem. (Other stuff too,
but that's the relevant one here.) A short device driver in the emulated OS,
and a program to talk to it, and voila, getting a file into the emulated
system is a short one line command, none of this hassle with putting the bits
on a virtual tape, etc, etc.
I found editing files with 'ed' on my simulated V6 system painful (although i
still have the mental microcode to do it), so I did my editing under Windows
(Epsilon), and then read the file down to the Unix to compile it. Initially I
was doing it by putting the file on a raw virtual pack, and doing something
similar to that tape kludge. Then I got smart, and whipped up a driver for the
DOS device in Ersatz-11, and a program that used it, to allow me to easily
read a file from the Windows filesystem down to the Unix. Going around the
compile-debug-edit loop is totally painless now.
Noel
In the 1980s an important resource for Sun users was the sun-spots
mailing list. I can't find an archive of it, though some digests were
posted to comp.sys.sun and are accessible (with some difficulty)
through Google Groups.
Does anyone know of a complete archive?
-- Richard
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