Just saw this on the ClassicCMP list. Wonder if anyone could read it out... or if it's actually something that's already out there.
--Dave
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> From: Chuck Guzis <cclist(a)sydex.com>
> Subject: 4.3BSD source tape offered on FreeBSD
> Date: November 25, 2013 at 2:29:19 PM EST
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=43346
(For reference ... I am writing a detailed history of Berkeley Unix ...)
Does anyone have a copy of and the story about the Univ. of Toronto
license used for their tape distributions around 1977?
In an interview in Linux Magazine, Volume 1, Number 6, in November
1999, Joy said he just took a license from the University of Toronto
and modified it a little bit and started using that for his BSD.
It was a one-page license.
I have a copy of an early one page license (from AUUGN newsletter V01.3,
Feb/Mar 1979) which was used for the Pascal and Ex release, but it says
"(first) Berkeley Software Tape" on it which seems odd to number the
real first distribution. Also the copy of the license I have is for $60,
but the first distribution tapes were $50; these amounts are both
documented in various places for 2BSD and 1BSD respectively. Since maybe
the one page license says "(first)" and "$60", maybe there is a
different earlier license?
I also tried Googling for some of the terminology but didn't find any
hits.
So does anyone have a copy of the license for the Univ. of Toronto tape
distribution from the mid 1970's?
On that note, can anyone tell me about the story of the Toronto Unix
distributions? I understand in late 1978, the Univ. of Toronto Computing
Services group and some other Toronto-area installations were providing
their own Unix distributions for standardization of their commonly used
commands and were forming the "Toronto Distribution Centre" (mentioned
by Gregory Hill, see AUUGN V01.2, Dec-78 / Jan-79). But within a few
years, the UTCS was using BSD.
Jeremy C. Reed
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Hi, all!
Sorry for slightly off-topic question, but do anybody have a copy of
original circa 1969 RS232C standard? I need it to resolve conflict with me
and my customer regarding if RS-232C REQUIRES the use of DE-25M connector
or just
RECOMMENDS it? It seems that there is a lot of interpretations of this
standard, but
no original document anywhere :(
I know it might cost $$$, but I will pay all needed fees.
All the best,
S.
> Hi all,
> I am hoping this list is still alive, since I'd like to find out a bit
more info about this backplane.
> It's part of an 11/23 system (based on CPU) that is made by Netcom. It
had
> standard DEC
> cards in it DLV11, M8021 bootstrap board etc. Apparently the system ran
a
> few years back
> before it was put in storage.
I have a few Netcom boxes at home. I'll try to remember to look
at what models when I go home.
> I aquired it, in the hopes of bringing it
> back to life and getting
> it to successfully display a login: prompt.
That would depend on the OS more than the hardware. :-)
> I have read through the archives, esp. a post from Michael Sokolov back
in
> 98, where he describes
> the different types of QBus'es. Q/Q, Q/CD etc.
> It looks like the backplane that I have (according to some documents
written at SLAC in late 70's)
> is a serpentine or sinusoidal.
> A diagram on the cardcage describes as follows:
> A B C D
> ------------>
> <-----------
> ------------->
> <------------
> There is also a blurb about slot 2/CD being wired differently. Two slots
on the diagram are pre-printed for RL controllers.
There were backplanes like that for the two card RL controller.
> My CPU card is a later rev. D so it can do 22bit addressing. I'd like if
possible to run 22bits, since this would allow
> me at a later time to put in a 11/73 cpu that would run 2.11.
I may be wrong (but I am sure someone here will correct me) but if the
backplane is designed for the two card RL controller I think it will be 18
bit and not capable of 22 bit.
> How would I go about checking if the backplane is wired for 22bits or
not.
> I seem to remeber the standard qbuses had the W1-W4 pins (?)
> that you could wirewrap to change from 18to22, but this backplane has
nothing like that.
I would guess you could look at it and see how many bits are wired thru.
And, if you have a clear view of the wirewrap side you should be able to
see if it has two A-B-C-D slots in the middle. Difference in wirewrap
pattern will be obvious. :-)
> Also, in the present configuration, with an 11/23 and 128Kw, could I run
v6 or v7 (assuming I can get some form of supported disk storage)? At
present
> I only have a floppy controller and a bunch of 8" Shugart 801 drives..
What floppy controller? Dec didn't use the standard Shugart 8" inteface
for RX01/RX02 disks. If it is like the Terak which also used 801's you
are going to need to find drivers for what OS you decide to use. Good
luck with that.
> thanks in advance for any replies.
You might try asking on alt.sys.pdp11 as there are a lot much more
knowlegable people than I active over there.
bill
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Ian,
Thanks for the response and the pointer to the web page. Looks like I can run 2.9 on the machine - I just have to find myself some RL's 8-)
Did some digging around on QBus, and think i found enough info, that coupled with some contiuity tests should allow me to figure out exactly how the backplane is laid out.
regards
alex
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ian King" <IanK(a)LivingComputerMuseum.org>
>To: "azd30" <azd30(a)telus.net>, pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org
>Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:47:19 AM
>Subject: RE: Netcom HV-1148 QBus Backplane
>You would probably be better served on the ClassicCmp mailing list. This list is primarily about software, specifically Unix on the PDP-11.
>I'd have to dig to answer your question, and there's probably someone on ClassicCmp who can do so off the top of his/her head. (And I already have my hands full: I'm at work looking at bringing up an IFS to talk to a Xerox Alto.)
>Take a look at the PUPS webpage for more information on installing e.g., V6 or V7 on various machines. My recollection is that these versions have requirements in hardware, such as the switch register, that may make them unsuitable for a Qbus machine - but the PUPS page >has a section that can answer definitively. -- Ian
Hi all,
I am hoping this list is still alive, since I'd like to find out a bit more info about this backplane.
It's part of an 11/23 system (based on CPU) that is made by Netcom. It had standard DEC
cards in it DLV11, M8021 bootstrap board etc. Apparently the system ran a few years back
before it was put in storage. I aquired it, in the hopes of bringing it back to life and getting
it to successfully display a login: prompt.
I have read through the archives, esp. a post from Michael Sokolov back in 98, where he describes
the different types of QBus'es. Q/Q, Q/CD etc.
It looks like the backplane that I have (according to some documents written at SLAC in late 70's)
is a serpentine or sinusoidal.
A diagram on the cardcage describes as follows:
A B C D
------------>
<-----------
------------->
<------------
There is also a blurb about slot 2/CD being wired differently. Two slots on the diagram are pre-printed for RL controllers.
My CPU card is a later rev. D so it can do 22bit addressing. I'd like if possible to run 22bits, since this would allow
me at a later time to put in a 11/73 cpu that would run 2.11.
How would I go about checking if the backplane is wired for 22bits or not. I seem to remeber the standard qbuses had the W1-W4 pins (?)
that you could wirewrap to change from 18to22, but this backplane has nothing like that.
Also, in the present configuration, with an 11/23 and 128Kw, could I run v6 or v7 (assuming I can get some form of supported disk storage)? At present
I only have a floppy controller and a bunch of 8" Shugart 801 drives..
thanks in advance for any replies.
--
alex
How to to extract a ".tap" file? What tools?
I found http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/tap manual but I haven't found
corresponding tool (even in tuhs source code archive).
The file I am trying to extract is
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/BSD/BSD4.1_bootable.tap.gz (12
MB). I can view some of the plain text in it.
I tried historical ar (which I have used for some other 1970's images),
restore, and tar. file(1) says it is a "Maple help database".
Jeremy C. Reed
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> CB/UNIX was developed to address deficiencies inherent in Research Unix,
> notably the lack of interprocess communication and file locking
CB/UNIX was one of several versions in various divisions of Bell Labs
to implement IPC facilities beyond pipes and signals. Top management
in a division would declare that they wanted to use Unix, but needed
some particular IPC mechanism: semaphores, events, message passing, etc.--
and needed it right away. I always believed that these demands stiffer
as they percolated up through channels to the point that no alternative
mechanism would do. We in research would have preferred to seek a
general solution that would suffice to serve the various demands.
Besides, anything that we produced but didn't use ourselves would
automatically be suspect. We were very wary of featuritis.
Roughly speaking, each demand led to a different local flavor of
Unix, each (I like to think) reflecting the particular variant of
IPC with which one of its system designers worked in graduate
school. Somewhere between the wariness of research Unix, where
an ethos of generality ruled, and Linux, which offers a dozen ways
to do anything, there must lie a happy medium--a medium that I
believe would be much closer to Unix than Linux. That, alas, has
not proved to be the way of open source.
