Reminds me of the old joke about the gnat buzzing around the elephant's nether end, with rape on its mind.... :-)
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From: tuhs-admin(a)minnie.tuhs.org on behalf of Phil Garcia
Sent: Wed 5/21/2003 12:53 PM
To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] sco v. ibm
Hi,
What do you make of the SCO (Caldera) lawsuit?
Does it affect the archive in any way?
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I asked Per Brinch Hansen recently about Solo and Concurrent Pascal, for use
on the PDP 11 simulators, et al, and I received a reply today.
This is it. I am wondering, does anyone have any clue as to where these
copies of the system might be squirrelled away? How many might've seen it at
their Universities?
Wesley Parish
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Subject: Re: Concurrent Pascal, Solo OS, et al
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 00:17:33 -0400
From: Per Brinch Hansen <pbh(a)pothos.syr.edu>
To: Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz>
Cc: Per Brinch Hansen <pbh(a)pothos.syr.edu>
Date: 18 May 2003
To: Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz>
From: Per Brinch Hansen <pbh(a)pothos.syr.edu>
Subject: Re: Concurrent Pascal, Solo OS, et al
On May 4, you wrote:
What I was wondering is, would it be worth asking you about
the possibility of your releasing the Concurrent Pascal, Solo
OS and several other such computer tools and programs, to PUPS
(the PDP Unix Preservation Society)?
At Caltech we prepared a distribution tape for the PDP 11/45
with the source text and portable code of the Solo system,
including the Concurrent and Sequential Pascal compiler. The
system reports were supplemented by implementation notes.
By the spring of 1976 we had distributed the system to 75
companies and 100 universities in 21 countries. Later, other
people moved the system to the Interdata 8/32, NCR 8250,
Modular 1, LSI 11, IBM 370/145 and many other computers.
Sad to say, I no longer have a copy of the system (and I
don't know who does).
Per Brinch Hansen
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Hi to all,
I stumbled on your mailing list and I thought this would be a good place to
pose my question. I was looking around for information about several little
known (to me) unix derived Oses.
AMIX (Amiga Unix)
RISCiX
ArchBSD
Lynx
Inferno
Helios
What I am looking for is basically what versions existed and when they were
released, and also from where did they originate. For instance I know that
RISCiX originated from BSD 4.4 but that is all I know.
I also know that inferno grew out of the research for plan 9, but what
version of plan 9 it evolved from I don¹t know.
Anyone know the above info? If not any idea where I can look for further
info?
Thanks :)
>I got a "Tektronix 8560 Multi-User Software Development Unit" together
>with a Tektronix 8540 in system 68k CPU emulator. The 8560 is based on
I found this by Googling for "tnix single-user":
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/pups/1998-March/000027.html
Hi.
I got a "Tektronix 8560 Multi-User Software Development Unit" together
with a Tektronix 8540 in system 68k CPU emulator. The 8560 is based on
the DEC M8186 PDP-11/23 CPU module but that card is the one and only DEC
part in the machine. Everything else is from Tektronix. There is a 35 MB
8" disk and a 8" floppy in the 8560 and it runs some flavor of UNIX
called TNIX. I am trying to break into it currently, as I have no
passwords. I can't get it to single user mode and I have no distribution
media nor no stand alone tools.
Has someone heared from this machine bevore?
Has someone distribution media or stand alone tools?
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tschüß,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
Hello again from Gregg C Levine
Yes, Ian. That's exactly what I mean. Of course I was thinking of RL02
images, rather then a RK05 image. Which one did you choose? And can
you post something explaining the steps?
And your response was the simpler form, which is what I wanted.
David's comment was a bit obtuse, but I got it. By the way? Are you a
WB fan? As in Warner Bros. Animation. I'm partial to the wisdom of B.
Bunny.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian King [mailto:iking@killthewabbit.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 1:34 AM
> To: Gregg C Levine
> Subject: Re: [pups] Restoring volumes
>
> That's where I got my RK05 image for UNIX v6, which I run on my
11/34. Is
> that what you're asking, or am I being simple? -- Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net>
> To: <pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:35 PM
> Subject: [pups] Restoring volumes
>
>
> Hello again from Gregg C Levine
> Just for the sake of an argument, has anyone actually managed to
> restore a volume from the collection on the ftp server, back to an
> originally sized disk pack? Or for that matter restored a system so
> that it behaves as advertised under E-11?
>
> No, folks that machine I "have on order", has not arrived. Once
again
> I am searching for information for a future project. One that might
be
> happening sometime this week, or even later this month.
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi )
> (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
Norman Wilson <norman(a)nose.cs.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> This convenience was abolished in either 4.2 or 4.3 (I am
> travelling right now and cannot check manuals and
> sources).
I don't remember the details in my head and I'm also typing this on the go, but
in 4.3BSD fsck does work on the block device and then you reboot with, well,
reboot, and it works.
MS
Carl Lowenstein:
Isn't this really true of Unix systems of any age, when doing fsck
on a mounted root file system?
Some middle-elderly BSD systems--4.1 and possibly 4.0--
managed the buffer pool in such a way that the super-block
of a mounted file system was kept in the original buffer,
with device and block number correctly stored in the struct
buf header. Hence if fsck wrote to the block device rather
than the raw one, the super-block came out right even when
checking a mounted file system; in particular there was no
need to reboot.
This convenience was abolished in either 4.2 or 4.3 (I am
travelling right now and cannot check manuals and
sources). I never quite understood why, though I never
looked at the source code in the later systems. The
scheme found in most current systems, in which the
root starts out read-only, is a better idea anyway.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON (normally)
Hello again from Gregg C Levine
Just for the sake of an argument, has anyone actually managed to
restore a volume from the collection on the ftp server, back to an
originally sized disk pack? Or for that matter restored a system so
that it behaves as advertised under E-11?
No, folks that machine I "have on order", has not arrived. Once again
I am searching for information for a future project. One that might be
happening sometime this week, or even later this month.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net
------------------------------------------------------------
"The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
"Use the Force, Luke."Â Obi-Wan Kenobi
(This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi )
(This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
Sign on the side of a transport belonging to the Rebel Alliance,
"Force happens".
