Before we had to phase out our FTP server, I kept on it several
versions of UNIX clones and related OS that were mostly not on TUHS.
This post is to remember some of these systems. Many of these were
open sourced or widely available at some time and were related to UNIX
one way or another. I may not have the latest versions or all the
versions, but at least I do keep something.
The following ones have been open sourced at some point in time (I
believe):
ChorusOS
Coherent
EXOS
L4
Lunix
MaRTE-OS
Mach
OpenBLT
OpenSolaris
Sprite (I also own the original distribution CD)
Trix
UniFlex
agnix
amoeba
bkunix
bsd386
hurd
iunix
jaluna-c5
lsx-unix
mini-unix
minix
omu
opensolaris
starunix
thix
from
tliquest.net/local/unix: uzi and various other bits
tme
tropix
tunix
unix-v8
unix-wega
uzi
xhomer
xinu
xv6
yoctix
Plus several archaic CDs with early versions of Linux,
Open/Free/NetBSD, (Walnut Creek, InfoMagic, etc. CD/ROMs)
and even the Beowulf/Extreme Linux CDs (plus I must keep around the
mirror we hosted for a long time of the Beowulf site). The hobbyist CDs
for OpenSolaris 8 (and I believe 9) with sources. Oh, and
MOSIX/OPENMOSIX.
In addition, I have many other sources whose Copyright status I'm not
aware of, but which are interesting for archival purposes.
Regarding QNX, yes, it was open sourced (at least for hobbyist use, I
have to check the license) for several distributions. I ported some
bioinformatics software and kept for some time a distribution
repository, and I'm pretty certain I must have the sources as well as
the virtual machines. I'll try to verify the licenses to see if it can
be redistributed, although I doubt they can. Oh, and I also own the
mentioned famous 3.5" diskette. I think I digitized it long ago. Would
have to check.
Off the Net, it has been possible, one time or another, to recover
executables and, sometime, even sources, of many systems.
Archive.org
has -I believe- a copy of a once famous repo of abandonware with
binaries of SCO, System V, AIX, etc...
I know that AIX, ATT systemV vI, II, III and IV, Solaris V6, Tru64,
OSF-1, Dynix, Ultrix 11, BSDI, Ultrix-32 etc... have been out there at
some time or another in source code format, and binaries of IRIX, Lisa,
QNX, A/UX, xenix...
Some years ago, I had more free time and could test many systems on
emulators, and built images and accompanying scripts ready ti run. I
also made some tools to be able to transfer data in and out of old
unix versions (so I could edit the software off the virtual machine
while back-porting a screen editor to V6, v5, etc... with only vt100
support).
Not UNIX-related, I also keep copies of many other ancient operating
systems and software and hardware emulators.
Well, as I said at the beginning, everything that I had, I should still
keep while the hard disks continue spinning. If there is any
interest in adding any of these to TUHS, I can try to find a way to
send it all.
If I find time to browse through everything, I would like to upload all
the source code to GitHub (at least anything that's redistributable).
If I find the time...
But, Warren, if you are interested in anything, let me know and I'll
find a way to give you access.
j
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