I found some disk images online that say it's for the PDP-11 version... let
me see what I can pull from them for you.
The UWISC stuff is here:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/
<http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/>
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:30:42PM -0500, Jason Stevens wrote:
> > I'd probably ask about that 4.3 Uwisc the wisconson one with the SUN NFS
> > stuff... and maybe the soviet DEMOS stuff...?
>
> Do you have the demos stuff? I have a pile of files, but it's all a jumble.
> If you have it, could you sit down a create a sensible tree of text-only
> files (i.e. no binary files) which I could add to the Unix Tree?
>
> I'll see if I have 4.3 Uwisc here too.
>
> Thanks,
> Warren
>
Hi, all!
Once, I was dismantling very old very long dead rusty box, which once
ran some version of SCO UNIX.
And I've got a strange device I've seen nowhere else - floppy-attached
tape drive, labelled Irwin, model 285. Drive looks
OK visually, motor wiring is perfect, so I can't see why it won't work.
I tried to make it run with old and new versions of Linux, but failed.
Do anybody have any documentation
regarding this?
Also - how wide these devices were used? I've never met one before
while I can't say I have little IT experience.
All the best,
S.
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I don't know where the Groklaw posting came from,
but the info is garbled in two ways:
1. It's not E_GREG, any more than it was ever E_NXIO
or E_IO or E_ACCES. It's EGREG.
2. The associated message is not and never was Greg
did it but It's all Greg's fault.
The Greg in question is indeed Greg Chesson; the saying
was part of the culture when I arrived in 1127 in 1984.
I knew the story once but have forgotten.
EGREG was put into the system initially half as a joke,
half as a spare error code for debugging kernel code.
Then, as I vaguely recall, Andrew Hume started using it
for real in his WORM-device driver, rather than inventing
a new code if he really needed it. This is how software
grows and why it must be pruned, or even razed to the
ground, now and then.
The phrase It's all so-and-so's fault, and variations
on that theme, appeared now and then in other ways in
the culture. My favourite was when Tom Duff augmented
the simple code (just a shell script, I think) that
sent printer-status warnings to the UNIX Room voice
synthesizer so that it didn't just say Please add paper,
it said Please add paper, dammit t d (if the current job
was td's). Except that for a while, for reasons that
now escape me, it was deliberatly changed to say dammit
andrew (Hume) no matter who's stuff was printing. It
took a week or two before Andrew noticed.
It was a kindergarten there, but a fun and productive one.
I don't miss living in northern New Jersey (which is why
I left the group in 1990) but I do miss the group as it
then was, and no longer is nor ever again shall be.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
(Actually typing this whilst sitting
somewhere northeast of Emeryville CA)
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I just saw this on Groklaw:
There were not many machines which ran Version 10. They were all
at Murray Hill and some of them were donated to Auburn University
when AT&T closed up shop. We got some old MicroVAX machines and
a couple of printed manuals. One of the printed manuals lists
various error codes. One of them is
E_GREG Greg did it.
Poor Greg. who was he, really?
Anybody know the answer? Norman?
P.S Merry Xmas to all.
Cheers,
Warren
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Hey, I know and like Greg. I used to work for him. I've cc-ed him on this,
he may not know about this list. And might enjoy it.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:07:19PM -0500, Brantley Coile wrote:
> Greg Chesson. He designed the uucp g protocol. There was a piece of
> networking gear at Murray hill that Greg worked on that every now and
> then would fail to connect. Someone modified the message to read "it's
> all Greg's fault.". Later the string became an errno, I think for the
> Netb file server protocol. Plan 9 still has an EGREG even though it is a
> string in plan 9. It now reads "Ken has left the building."
>
> iPhone email
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> I just saw this on Groklaw:
>>
>> There were not many machines which ran Version 10. They were all
>> at Murray Hill and some of them were donated to Auburn University
>> when AT&T closed up shop. We got some old MicroVAX machines and
>> a couple of printed manuals. One of the printed manuals lists
>> various error codes. One of them is
>>
>> E_GREG Greg did it.
>>
>> Poor Greg. who was he, really?
>>
>> Anybody know the answer? Norman?
>>
>> P.S Merry Xmas to all.
>> Cheers,
>> Warren
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Tim Newsham:
Does anyone know if emulators are capable of running 8th ed
unix or later? What about emulation of the bitblit?
========
Who knows what blitjerq lurks in the hearts of men?
Seriously, an emulator with appropriate CPU settings should
be able to run latter-day Research UNIX without much trouble.
8/e would need a VAX-11/780 or 750; 10/e would work on a
VAX 8550 or 8700 (only one CPU, though) or a MicroVAX II
or III. I forget just when the MicroVAX work was first
done (by Ted Kowalski, who in an earlier day wrote fsck),
so I'm not sure at what point in the 9/e era it appeared;
but since 8/e was the last really organized tape we made,
it doesn't really matter.
As others have pointed out, the blit/jerq code didn't
run on the VAX, but in a separate terminal. For that
you'd need an emulator for the MC68000 or the WE32100.
By the time the 8/e tape was cut, the 68K-based Blits
had pretty much been retired; I'm not sure that code
would be as interesting to resurrect as that for the
WE32100-based Teletype 5620 DMD. Of course you'd
also have to emulate all the I/O devices, including
the decidedly-non-PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
I don't remember for sure any more (maybe Dennis does),
but the jerq code may have been on a separate tape
because the special C compiler for that CPU chip wasn't
easily redistributed--it came from the commercial side
of AT&T, not the research part.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
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Does anyone know if emulators are capable of running 8th ed
unix or later? What about emulation of the bitblit?
Do the few lucky people who have a copy of these run them
in emulation?
Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com
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before I do some code spelunking, does anyone here know the history of
termios? I've been doing some serial programming recently and wondering
how things got to the way they are... why is VTIME an inter-character
timer instead of a timer for an entire VMIN block, for instance?
--
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I was going to upload the various man pages of 32/V so I'd have a 'nice'
collection of them, and to help with my eventual conversion of the help text
into RTF for a windows helpfile when I was reading through the number
command...
http://gunkies.org/wiki/32v_1m_number
Number copies the standard input to the standard output, changing each
> decimal number to a fully spelled out version. Punctuation is added to make
> the output sound well when played through speak(1).
So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point? Does anyone know how
it worked? Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it does
seem very interesting...!
I wonder if this was the start of the UNIX/IVR relationship....?
Thanks!
Jason
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