Shoppa wondered,
Can anyone comment about the history of the "sno" Snobol
interpreter that seems to exist in V4 (man page in the
archives gives 2/7/93 as the date) and some later
Unix versions (Sys V, V6, etc.)? In the TUHS archives
we have the V6 sources but they are remarkably comment-
free.
Was "sno" ever part of the build chain of any interesting
utilities etc?
Not that I know of; I think writing it was just a quick entertainment
for Ken. The "application" that has survived is a
1-page program that solves the Soma (or Instant Insanity)
puzzle.
Dennis
Can anyone comment about the history of the "sno" Snobol
interpreter that seems to exist in V4 (man page in the
archives gives 2/7/93 as the date) and some later
Unix versions (Sys V, V6, etc.)? In the TUHS archives
we have the V6 sources but they are remarkably comment-
free.
Was "sno" ever part of the build chain of any interesting
utilities etc?
I'm just generally curious about awk predecessors, if
anyone wants to chime in with their favorite pre-awk
string processing tools.
Tim.
Hi, I have one question about 386BSD & NetBSD 0.8... If I'm right the reason that they were 'pulled' was because of infringing AT&T code. However didn't you need a 32v license to get access to 4.X BSD? So in that case since 32v is now public wouldn't that allow these early self hosting BSD's to be 'free' again???
Just wondering...
Jason
Folks,
I am interested in the use of multiple system call sets in Unix systems.
I recollect that Pyramid Technology machines in the 80's allowed users
and/or processes to select whether to use BSD or SYSV system call
semantics. Also, FreeBSD supports Linux system calls and SYSV in
emulation.
Does anyone know a good location (book, article, website) that discusses
this.
thanks
dayton
Dayton Clark
CIS Department dayton(a)brooklyn.cuny.edu
Brooklyn College/CUNY 718.951.4811
Brooklyn, New York 11210 718.951.4842 (fax)
> There where several ports: Sun3, Sun4 / SPARC, DECstation, SPUR, Sequent
> Symmetry at least. Even mixed architecture clusters where supported. See
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/retrospective.html
Wasn't the Symmetry a 386 based system? Could Sprite be "revived" for the
modern PC? Just wondering ...
Arnold
I think you're confused. The DECstation was made by DEC, but used a MIPS
processor, not a VAX. SIMH won't be able to do anything with it, although
there are likely other MIPS simulators out there to be found.
Arnold
> From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net>
> To: <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
> Subject: RE: [TUHS] Sprite
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 18:16:33 -0400
>
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Okay, now this begs the question: Can the VAX Station boot code which
> is targeted to that specific system, be rewritten to accommodate the
> VAX processor that SIMH emulates? I am not a good C programmer, just a
> whatever comes before that. I can only offer these suggestions, and
> ask these questions.
>
> For that matter, do any of us have any of the SUN hardware that I do
> know Sprite ran on? Or that VAX Station? For me, its no to all three.
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:19:19 -0500
> From: Cornelius Keck <cornelius(a)mail.keck.cx>
> To: Randy Belk <rbelk(a)onlybsd.com>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Sprite
> Cc: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
>
> I looked at the Berkeley repository last night, and did not
> see some files required to run Sprite directly from disk --
> for instance, the Sparc bootimage (sun4.bt or so) seems to
> be missing, or I'm overlooking it, in my coffein-deprived
> state of mind.
>
> Come to think of it.. I do have a few Sparc 2 machines, with
> a few improvements (like 128MB RAM, Weitek PowerUp), and would
> like to give Sprite a spin. I'm all for adding the Sprite ISO
> to the archive!
>
> - Cornelius
Jose' R Valverde wrote:
> > >
> > > I had the (small) pleasure to run it on a small number of
> > > DECstations back in 1994-1995 out of the freshly published
> > > WalnuCreek CD and I still long for some of it features.
Let me be confused, and note that a DECstation is not a SPARCstation.
carl
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenst(a)ucsd.edu
Jose,
TNX for parking Sprite on ftp.es.embnet.org!
I just ran into a little problem.. looks as if
the node is either down, or not reachable (at
least from here (== Plano, Texas):
$ ping ftp.es.embnet.org
PING bakalao.cnb.uam.es (150.244.80.6): 56 data bytes
^C
--- bakalao.cnb.uam.es ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
$ ftp ftp.es.embnet.org
[2 minutes later]
^C$
> generated an ISO from the raw CD and am copying now the CD
> contents to disk, which are being made available as
>
> ftp://ftp.es.embnet.org/pub/misc/TUHS/sprite
> and
> ftp://ftp.es.embnet.org/pub/misc/TUHS/sprite.iso
>
> as the copying is done. Beware, it is ~530MB.
This goes for both my machine at home, and here at work.
Now, www.es.embnet.org responds fairly fast, so I don't
think that it's the wire across the big pond. Any
ideas?
TNX!
Regards,
Cornelius
