14 Nov
2018
14 Nov
'18
3:51 a.m.
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Warren Toomey wrote:
I think I did before, but I confess I didn't spend much time on it. My
pride and joy was certainly the rewritten ei.c driver (implementing the
200-UT batch protocol), and the clever workaround to an egregious KRONOS
bug where it would get stuck in a POLL/REJECT loop (I merely sent a dummy
command viz "Q,I" -- discarding the response -- because KRONOS was
expecting a command instead of the correct REJECT being nothing to send
from the batch emulator).
At the time, Unix got blamed because the smaller non-Unix /40s (running a
standalone program) worked fine for some reason; my guess is that it
implemented the broken protocol somehow.
-- Dave
Hell, I wish I
still had that "CSU Tape"; it was Edition 6 with as much
of Edition 7 (and AUSAM) that I could shoe-horn in, such as XON/XOFF
for the TTY driver. I was known as "Mr Unix 6-1/2" at the time...
Definitely look at the UNSW tapes I have:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=AUSAM
and https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UNSW/
in case any of these are what you are looking for.