26 Jan
1999
26 Jan
'99
7:25 a.m.
allisonp(a)world.std.com (Allison J Parent) wrote:
Get that out of there fast, it's copyrighted
firmware!
The PUPS archive already contains some PDP-11 boot/diag/etc. odds and ends. Why
not have VAX ones too?
But if too many people start complaining, I'll just move the entire odds-ends
directory to one of my friend's _anonymous_ FTP site.
BTW, there is a long tradition of shipping DEC odds and ends with UNIX. Just
look at pcs750.bin, or at DEC-contributed device drivers in 4.3BSD, or at the
fact that if you do a strings(1) on 4.3BSD /genvmunix, you'll see DEC's
copyright and the word "ULTRIX" in a whole bunch of places. Ancient UNIX and
Ancient DEC live together very well. Please don't separate them. If our group
(PUPS/TUHS) loves and cares for Ancient UNIX, we should also love and care for
Ancient DEC.
And finally, some of the files in my odds-ends directory were originally
recovered from some BSD distribution (the ULTRIX rabads program, which despite
its DEC copyright, ULTRIX origin, and binary-only nature came with some BSD
distributions).
Michael Sokolov
TUHS 4BSD Coordinator
4.3BSD-* Maintainer
Quasijarus Project Principal Architect & Developer
Phone: 440-449-0299 or 216-217-2579
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu
TUHS WWW page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/
Quasijarus WWW page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/
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From: "emanuel stiebler" <emu(a)ecubics.com>
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Hi all,
why this version isn't in the pups archive ?
cheers,
emanuel
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From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls(a)rek.tjls.com>
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On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:21:38PM -0700, emanuel stiebler wrote:
Hi all,
why this version isn't in the pups archive ?
cheers,
emanuel
It would be nice to have the pre-4.4 (was it 4.4-alpha?) and 4.4BSD
distributions, as shipped by CSRG, in the archive.
What would be even nicer would be the entire system as of the last
time it was touched -- the AT&T-encumbered system which would correspond
to the free 4.4BSD-Lite2 distribution which was the last public output
from CSRG.
Did anyone ever build a distribution of such a system? Is it feasible
to do so now? I don't have a firm grasp on which architectures would
actually compile and run as of that point in the SCCS files -- would
VAX, using the old VM system? I'd assume hp300 would work, since it
was the primary development platform, right? Had the LBL SPARC port
been integrated?
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls(a)rek.tjls.com
"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"
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