Matt G. suggested that I join the COFF <COFF(a)tuhs.org> mailing list.
He thought it might be a better site to post my questions
operational and technical ..
Thank,
Ken
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Hi,
Question. Is anyone aware of a problem with F77 on 3B2/400 running
System V.3 ? When trying to validate a simple program it works as
expected on Linux. See below. But, on Unix V.3 it does not. You do
not get the question until AFTER you enter a number.
Linux:
PROGRAM HELLO
INTEGER AGE
PRINT '(A)', 'Hello, world. Enter your age :'
READ '(A)', AGE
PRINT '(A)', 'You entered :'
print '(A)', AGE
STOP
END
ken@ken-Inspiron-5755:~/fortran$ ./a.out
Hello, world. Enter your age :
73
You entered :
73
Now under Unix
$ ./a.out
73
Hello, world. Enter your age :
You entered :
73
Thanks,
Ken
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> From: KenUnix
> How can you make "make" using make.mk without make?
You could always try reading make.mk and issuing the appropriate commands
manually. Just a thought.
Noel
I have a question. I am running UNIX System V Release 3.2 AT&T 3B2/400 on a
3B2/400 SIM.
I went to use "make" however it is not there only the source:
bu
defs
doname.c
dosys.c
dyndep.c
files.c
gram.y
main.c
make.mk
misc.c
perror.c
prtmem.c
rules.c
How can you make "make" using make.mk without make?
Any help appreciated,
Ken
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Good evening or whichever time of day you find yourself in. I was reading up on Japanese computer history when I got to thinking specifically on where UNIX plays in with it all, which then lead to some further curiosity with non-English UNIX in general.
In the midst of documentation searches/study, I've spotted French and what I believe to be Japanese documentation bearing Bell/AT&T logos. I've also seen a few things pop up in German although they looked to be university resources, not something from the Bell System. In any case, is there any clear historical record on efforts within the USG/USL line, or research for that matter, towards the end of foreign language support or perhaps even single polyglot installations? Would BSD have been more poised for this sort of thing being more widely utilized in the academic scene?
- Matt G.
Hello,
30 years ago today on March 21st, 1993 at around
09:45:37 UTC, NetBSD was born!
I believe this makes NetBSD the oldest,
still-maintained and actively developed, free and open
source descendant of the Berkeley Software
Distribution (BSD), a true genetic Unix (albeit not
small-caps UNIX nor UNIX(tm)).
If you want to see what the source tree looked like
back then:
cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co -D "1993-03-21 09:45:37 GMT" src
Or browse the tree at that time:
https://www.netbsd.org/~jschauma/src-1993-03-21/
Unlike me, many on this list were around at the time
and place. Would love to hear some origin stories...
-Jan
Just sharing this document list I spotted on an eBay listing as I was perusing things: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HIcAAOSwnoZjoSNA/s-l1600.jpg
The manual in the auction[1] is interesting in that it features the Bell Logo scratched off, presumably as this was sold/shipped right around that magic flip of the switch. I keep seeing variation upon variation of these covers, some 5.0 with the bell, some 5.0 without, some System V with, some System V without. The oddest I've seen recently is actually another active eBay auction[2] as of this typing in which the typical grid-pattern cover is seen but the title is given as "UNIX operating system" rather than just "UNIX system". Anywho, going to describe the document here so the text is in the archive somewhere.
After the above link is a document titled "Section 3 - Available Documentation" with a handwritten note indicating this is a section of DC-001 which is in turn listed as the "3B20S Documentation Catalog".
The contents of the document are (all listed documents are Issue/Version 1):
Table A - 3B20S Processor System Predelivery Documents
3B20S Technical Data Sheets - TDS-01
3B20S Site Preparation Manual - SPM-01
3B20S Documentation Catalog - DC-001
Table B - 3B20S Processor Applications Documents
OAS User's Guide - 302-920
OAS Administrator's Guide - 302-921
OAS Electronic Messaging Reference Card - 302-922
OAS Editor-Formatter Reference Card - 302-923
OAS Document Editing and Formatting Workbook - 302-924
Table C - 3B20S Processor System Basic Documentation
3B20S System Index - 301-901
3B20S System Description - 301-911
UNIX System User's Guide - 301-921
UNIX Operating System Error Message Manual - 301-922
UNIX System User's Manual - 301-925
UNIX System Administrator's Manual - 301-926
UNIX System Administrator's Guide - 301-931
UNIX System Operator's Guide - 301-941
3B20S System Maintenance Guide - 301-951
Looks like there is another page stapled behind that one. I've reached out to the seller to see if they're willing to share the rest info on the pieces of paper.
Looks like the OAS card I happened upon recently has friends, and what I wouldn't give for some of that 3B20 stuff. I think that's going to be one of my next documentation goals, to track down some more 3B20 documents, there seems to actually be a surprising lack of 3B20 documentation that has been scanned.
- Matt G.
[1] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/125672373414?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-235…
[2] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/385464959716?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-235…
I have succeeded in building a complete (including the extra apps) working
Vax-780 sim running unix 2.0v2 gdts except
for 2 things.
1) Unable to set up to be able print to the host. The device appears to be
an LP11 but the
Kernel does not have an LP device (c,major,minor) defined. The sim has an
entry for LPT.
2) Any way to network (Ethernet) off the sim to the host? It seems to be
possible the tools
are there, but again is not covered anywhere?
I have gone over all the documents I could find. If someone could point me
to the
appropriate documents that would be great.
Any help would be appreciated,
Ken
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