21 Nov
1998
21 Nov
'98
10:39 p.m.
Some further clues, for anyone who's following this bit or
archeology:
The second file on the tape has the following string in it:
4.3 BSD Reno UNIX #1: Sat Jul 28 15:19:06 PDT 1990
trent@kerberos.berkeley.edu:/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.vaxminiroot
The third file has this string in it:
4.3 BSD Reno UNIX #4 Sat Jul 28 13:24:08 PDT 1990
trent@kerberos.berkeley.edu:/nbsd/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.allvax.
Additionally, in the third file, there appears to be some printf-type
strigns for configuring in the different possible CPU's supported:
VAX 8600, serial# %d(%d), hardware level %d(%d)
VAX 82%c0, hardware rev %d, ucode patch rev %d, sec patch %d, ucode rev %d
VAX 11/78%c, serial# %d(%d), hardware ECO level %d(%d)
VAX 11/750, hardware rev %d, ucode rev %d
VAX 11/730, ucode rev %d
MicroVAX-II-MicroVAX 3000, ucode rev %d
So the tape sticker says "Tahoe", the miniroot and Generic root claim
to be Reno, and the fourth file (the tar archive) has the following
mentions of Tahoe and Reno:
$ sear file4.tar_list tahoe
755 0 Jul 29 06:26:47 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/
444 2488 Jul 29 06:26:43 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/ace.0
444 3563 Jul 29 06:26:44 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/autoconf.0
444 1321 Jul 29 06:26:44 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/cons.0
444 6446 Jul 29 06:26:44 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/cy.0
444 4074 Jul 29 06:26:44 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/dr.0
444 2331 Jul 29 06:26:44 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/enp.0
444 4121 Jul 29 06:26:44 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/ik.0
444 2498 Jul 29 06:26:45 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/intro.0
444 386 Jul 29 06:26:45 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/lp.0
444 4427 Jul 29 06:26:45 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/mtio.0
444 9321 Jul 29 06:26:45 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/vd.0
444 3816 Jul 29 06:26:46 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/vx.0
444 2271 Jul 29 06:26:45 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/mem.0
444 2271 Jul 29 06:26:45 1990 share/man/cat4/tahoe/kmem.0
---> share/man/cat4/tahoe/mem.0
755 0 Jul 4 18:49:29 1990 share/man/cat6/tahoe/
$ sear file4.tar_list reno
%SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES, no strings matched
If someone who is more aware of the 4.3BSD histories than I am
(and I'm certain that I'm one of the least-aware folks around!)
can pinpoint where in the hierarchy this tape belongs, it'd help
settle a lot of my confusion!
In the meantime, the FTP connection to minnie seems to be holding
up admirably, and folks will be able to inspect the files for themselves
sometime around 7 PM EST tonight (Saturday here - that's either
tomorrow or yesterday in Australia, I can never remember which)
in the directory
/usr/home/shoppa/43bsd_tahoe
on minnie.
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