20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
7:20 p.m.
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On 4/18/06, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
NEXTSTEP 3.3 & OpenStep run on NeXT's m68k, x86, and on HP/Apollo 700
series HPPA workstations and on several SUN SPARCstation models.
I own an HP735 that runs NS3.3 quite nicely.
[ Please reply to Bill if you can, I
don't know if he's on
the list ]
----- Forwarded message from Bill Cunningham <billcu1(a)verizon.net>
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:32:27 -0400
From: "Bill Cunningham" <billcu1(a)verizon.net>
Subject: Bob's emulator and ultrix
To: <wkt(a)tuhs.org>
I can't get the sim 2.3d to boot ultrix 3.1 or xenix or anyother
boot tapes
in the uhs's archive. I have compiled the pdp11 emulator with
gcc-3.4.6. I
am also interested in the OS Tim Berners-Lee used to write his first
browser. VMS on a VAX machine I have read. Is there anything like
this in
the archive? A VAX emulator and VMS OS?
Tim Berners-Lee developed what became the WWW, server and browser, on
a NeXT computer running the NeXTstep OS. There is not a whole lot of
public knowledge about the internals of the NeXT hardware, which makes
it difficult to write an emulator for it.
There is a slowly progressing effort to port NetBSD to NeXT hardware.
Also, the last few releases of NeXTstep and OpenStep would run either
on NeXT hardware or selected x86 hardware. Somewhere there is a
writeup covering the subject of running OpenStep on the VMware virtual
machine.
This is a close but not quite the same thing article:
http://iamleeg.blogspot.com/2006/04/so-heres-full-system-networking-
is.html
None of this is VAX, nor is it any other hardware covered by SimH.
carl
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