There is a somewhat modern port of V6 to the 286, which is in the archive (http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Other/V6on286/) There is also a modern x86 port of V7 available at http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/ This one is more interesting as it aims to run in modern machines and includes a bootable CD image.
Best regards,
Sergio Aguayo
----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Michele Ghisolfo" <ghisolfo.m(a)gmail.com>
Para: "Sergio Aguayo" <sergioag(a)qmailhosting.net>
Enviados: Lunes, 11 de Julio 2011 7:02:37
Asunto: Re: [TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, Sergio Aguayo wrote:
> If you're reading the Lion's book, better get Unix V6 from the archive. SVR4 is quite different in many aspects.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sergio Aguayo
I got them, but they work on PDP-11. I'd like to see an version of Unix
working on Intel x86. As far as I know, SVR4 was the first Unix working
on this architecture.
If I recall correctly Unix V6 was only ported on Interdata 7/32
computers. I'd like to get the sources of a small Unix kernel working
on x86.
Has anyone ported Unix V6 on x86?
Thanks for your replies,
-- Michele
All, several years back Mike Mahoney interviewed several of the original
Unix players for a Unix oral history. The transcripts are at:
http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/
At the time AT&T were going to release these in audio format, but it seems
to have fizzled out. Does anybody know if the audio interviews ever got out?
The transcripts are fine, but in places they show "(unclear)" when a word
or name is used, and of course it's exactly that name you want to find out.
Many thanks for any leads.
Warren
> All, IEEE Spectrum have asked me to write a paper on Unix to celebrate the
> 40th anniversary of the release of 1st Edition in November 1971. I'm after
> ideas & suggestions!
of course this quote is always good for a chuckle:
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were
redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."
[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson]
and I always liked this quote from Linus Torvalds:
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The real issue here is paradigms. The classical "everything's
> a file" broke down with the advent of networking, sockets and
> non-blocking reads. At the moment the file paradigm is so much
> out of touch with computational reality that web servers need
> to fork for each client and people are crying out for asynchronous
> sendfile and other weird interfaces.
Sure. But I think it's still a valid paradigm to consider "everything is a
stream of bytes". And that's _really_ what the UNIX paradigm has been from
the first: the whole notion of pipes etc is not all that different from
networking.
[http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/7bcbbfeaea2b93c9?hl=en&d…]
> I'm also trying to chase down some quotes; my memory seems to be failing me
> but I'm sure I've seen these somewhere:
ugh..my memory is failing too at the moment. I'm sure I once read a
nice rant of sorts about how Unix has proven to be of sound design
that has adapted well to changes in the computing landscape...
Anyone remember picasso, a vector graphics GUI app
that generated pic(1) source?
I know nothing of it, anyone got a screenshot even?
is the source available?
was its frontend X11 or blit terminal?
Was it related to the blit cip and xcip tools
or are they a different genus?
Thanks for any info.
-Steve
I figured you guys may get a kick out of this...
You can download a 'ready to run' version here:
http://code.google.com/p/vak-opensource/downloads/detail?name=dvk-demos.zip…
Included is a modified version of SIMH's PDP-11 emulator with a new
disk controller. Binaries are included for both Linux & Win32.
Source to his additions are here:
http://vak-opensource.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/bk/simh-dvk/
And the source to version 2.2 of Demos has been provided here:
ftp://ftp.besm6.org/pub/archives/d22.tar.gz
Oh control+n lets you input in russian, and control+o lets you input in english.
>From what I understand DEMOS is derived from 2.9 BSD..
I don't speak Russian and what I end up doing is cutting & pasting
into google translate... For some really bizarre translations.
Demos is Copyright 1991 by Research Institute "Scientific Centre", lab 462/2.
I thought you guys may enjoy this...
http://aiju.de/code/pdp11/
It's a PDP-11 with a teletype console, and a RK05 with Unix v6.
Because browsers are weird, here is some of the keycommands...
DEL is the interrupt key (^C on modern *nix), Pause the quit key (^\
or ^L) and PrtScr is EOF (^D).
Jason
Now that Novell has definitively been found by the courts to own the
Unix copyrights AND decided not to sell them in their latest batch of
financial flailing about, I'm wondering what they're going to do about
the Ancient Unix license. While they've promised not to sue anybody
about Unix, I'm wondering if they'll ever officially endorse the
Ancient Unix 4-clause license or perhaps even switch it to something a
little less awkward like a 3-clause BSD clone or the MIT license.
Also, I wonder if perhaps they might be convinced to expand the
license to cover things like System III or maybe even some early
versions of System V. How might one go about making these inquiries?
Hi.
> > Hi. Does anyone remember for sure if "new" awk shipped with System V
> > Release 3.1 or 3.2? I know it wasn't 3.0.
>
> Hi,
>
> http://www.levenez.com/lang/ says 1978 for oawk and 1985 for nawk.
New awk existed inside the Research group for some time before it
filtered out through System V. It was even available separately,
directly from them, to educational institutions. Circa 1986 I got
a copy that way when I worked at the Emory University computing center.
> regarding http://www.levenez.com/unix/, 1978 is between v6 and v7,
> and 1985 is between SVr2 and SVr3.0.
True but not relevant; new awk was released with System V at either
3.1 or 3.2; I'm leaning towards 3.1 since that is what I wrote way back
when in the gawk manual when I knew for sure. :-)
Unless anyone can check the actual sources, I think we should declare
this closed... Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
Arnold
