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[pups] 2.11BSD Patch 445; FPSIM fixed; 211bsd runs on systems without FPP

by Walter F.J. Mueller

A note to all 2.11bsd users: Some time ago I looked into running 2.11bsd on systems without floating point unit. The release notes state that this is untested and unsupported, and indeed it didn't work. Robin Birch some time ago fixed part of the issues, see patch 434, but still the kernel paniced when the very first program was started. I managed to localize and fix the problem in sys/pdp/mch_fpsim.s. Steven Schultz right away issued 2.11BSD patch #445. All patches up to and including 445 are provided by Steven under ftp://sg-1.ims.ideas.gd-ais.com/pub/2.11BSD A patch level 445 system will now boot on simh for example on a set cpu 11/70 nofpp 4m configuration and work just fine, albeit a little slower. It should thus also work on a real 11/70 without FPP. I heard of some 11/70 with non-working FPP's, so this maybe good news for the owners. With best regards, Walter Mueller -- Dr. Walter F.J. Müller Mail: W.F.J.Mueller(a)gsi.de GSI, Abteilung KP3 Phone: +49-6159-71-2766 D-64291 Darmstadt FAX: +49-6159-71-3762 URL: http://www-linux.gsi.de/~mueller/

18 years, 1 month

running unix v7 on a pdp emulator

by Karim Hamidou

Happy new year. My name is karim hamidou and i'm french (you've surely noticed that my prose isn't bright) and i'd like to run unix v7 on the pdp emulator sim-2.3. Do you know how to run it ? I hope that my question isn't quite inappropriate. Thanks for your help. Regards. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 1 month

V7 prompts

by Bill Cunningham

Hellwig, It's been a long time since I've been able to play with the simulator. Now I can't seem to get into V7. Can you point to me the page online because I don't have a .ps viewer that shows the commands again with the tapes and disks. tm(0,3) and so on. Bill

18 years, 1 month

SCCS source code available

by Gunnar Ritter

Hi, Sun has released the source code to the SCCS version control system: <http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=79598&tstart=0#79598> I have created a portable variant of it at <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/devtools.html>. Gunnar

18 years, 1 month

booting vanilla v7 on simh problem

by Abel

While looking for virgin/vanilla v6 and v7 tapes to boot on simh, I'm kinda stuck. And since simh mailing list wasn't much help, cuz seems there mostly vax/vms guys, maybe it's someone here to help me out. V6.tape from Ken Wellsch was quite easy to boot, by cutting three rk images directly from it by means of "dd", then booting the root image and mounting source and doc where it should belong. Also it boots nicely in more traditional way off the tape by using "ltap" script from "www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os" and then following the standard install procedure for v6. The same "ltap" set of commands or it's slightly shorter version like this one: d 100000 012700 d 100002 172526 d 100004 010040 d 100006 012740 d 100010 060003 d 100012 172522 d 100014 105737 d 100016 172522 d -h 100020 80FD d 100022 005007 run 100000 boots "catted" in one file Keith Bostic v7 bits of tape, up to the Boot : promt. But when calling mkfs or restor programs by "tm(0,3)" or "tm(0,4)", the simh just hangs indefinitely. Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong maybe? Thank you. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

18 years, 1 month

Re: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 35, Issue 4

by lm＠bitmover.com

> for new code (and Sys V is mostly new enough, unlike Unix V32) after Hmm. I'm coming into this late so maybe I'm not seeing the full context. If the statement is that V32 != Sys V I have to disagree, I've read all of 32V source (kernel and user and I mean all of it. It's not like I had deep understanding of every line but my eyes have seen every line of code in 32V, it's not that big). I've also read large chunks of Sys V - not all of it, but depending on the release, fairly large chunks, like 80% or more. The idea that most stuff was rewritten in Sys V is not true, not even slightly true. I dunno if that is what is being claimed but if it is that's silly. Most of the stuff is the same, especially in userspace but also in the kernel, tons of the kernel is unchanged. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com

18 years, 2 months

Open Sourcing IRIX?

by Lord Doomicus

Since SGI is EOL'ing IRIX at the end of the year, has anyone asked them if they would donate it's source ( under some sort of OSI license of course ) to the UNIX archive? Or is there too much SysV code in it? It would be cool to have easy access to the older IRIX versions for older SGI hardware. - Derrik Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE lorddoomicus(a)mac.com http://www.doomd.net ... I am using an Apple Macintosh to design the Cray-3 supercomputer. -- Seymour Cray, 1986

18 years, 2 months

Re: [TUHS] original vi under Linux?

by Aharon Robbins

> http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net Thanks to both of the people who just replied with this answer! I didn't know about this but will look at it ASAP. Arnold

18 years, 2 months

original vi under Linux?

by Aharon Robbins

Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the original BSD vi under Linux? I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources. I made a stab at the Open Solaris version of vi, but could only get so far. Thanks, Arnold Robbins

18 years, 2 months

Re: [TUHS] Open Sourcing IRIX?

by Michael Kerpan

Caldera changed very drastically as a company at the time it changed its name to SCO). Ancient Unix was opened up in January of 2002. In June of that year, the CEO of Caldera was forcibly replaced with an M$-backed anti-open source crusader. It was at that point that Caldera stopped selling its Linux distro, changed its name to SCO and started suing any company involved with Linux. On 11/28/06, Robert Tillyard <rob(a)vetsystems.com> wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2006, at 13:17, Michael Kerpan wrote: > > > That would never happen as it's SCO, not Novell, that owns System V > > and SCO is a M$-funded anti-open source crusader. > > Didn't SCO open up the early UNIX versions on TUHS now? and I thought > that previously Caldera had opened some old OSs like DR-DOS or CP-M. > > Regards, Rob. >

18 years, 2 months

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