18 Jun
2022
18 Jun
'22
11:18 p.m.
Are these systems bootable? I see all the source, but recall previous
discussions
about how bootstrapping them was tricky, or at least involved a large
number of
steps, each of which wasn't bad, but the whole path wasn't well mapped out.
For V[67] we at least have boot tapes from back in the day, and V5 has a
bootable
disk image...
Warner
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 10:58 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
TUHS Source Archive BTL Research Distributions
<https://streaklinks.com/BF0jaowo6HdJanOkuwoN8MED/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuhs.org%2FArchive%2FDistributions%2FResearch%2F>
you should find them all.
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 1:13 AM Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Could users outside Bell Labs actually get their
hands on post-v7
Research Unixes?
It was always my impression that The Thing You Could Get From The Phone
Company, after v7, was System III or System V. Obviously it's not
surprising that Research Unix features from later versions ended up in
SysV, but did anyone actually learn about them from v8-v10, or just by way
of SysV ?
Was there some (legal) mechanism for the post-v7 Unixes to get out into
people's hands?
Adam