26 Sep
2003
26 Sep
'03
5:47 p.m.
Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
"4.3BSD-Tahoe Vax distribution" is an oxymoron. Berkeley released the Tahoe
tape with Tahoe binaries, no VAX binaries. I was the one who compiled the Tahoe
source for the VAX, and the result was 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0.
OTOH, you may be referring to the fact that the Tahoe distribution in the
archive is broken. Yes, it is. Unfortunately there was an unrecoverable tape
read error.
This has come up time and again. SIMH's emulation of VAX is too poor. VAX is
not an easy architecture to emulate.
MS
The 4.3BSD-Quasijarus dists were compressed with a
compression format
that's not compatible with either gzip nor old compress(1). Michael
Sokolov should be able to send in some notes on the tools required.
Yes, for political reasons I needed to make the 4.3BSD-Quasijarus compressor a
version of compress, not gzip (can't have any GNU), but I wanted to have the
higher compression ratio of deflation, so I created a new version of compress
that supports deflation in addition to the original LZW algorith. You can find
the new compress in components/compress.tar either on my FTP site or in Warren's
archive in the 4BSD area.
Is there a set
of 4.3BSD-Tahoe Vax distribution files that's complete?
Not that I know of. Finally, do
you know of any 4.3BSD version that will install and run on
simh? Quasijarus and Tahoe of the Unix Archive are broken for me and Reno
doesn't boot stand. Admittedly, I haven't tried the vanilla version yet.
Not that I know of. I'll cc this to the TUHS list and see if any other
people know the answer.