22 Nov
1998
22 Nov
'98
12:26 a.m.
Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com> writes:
Some further clues, for anyone who's following
this bit or
archeology:
This is clearly a 4.3BSD-Reno tape (for VAX). I'll look at it when it's
fully uploaded (you're saying it won't be until 19:00 EST, so it'll be
after the X-Files I guess), but I can bet that it's identical to the one in
/usr/home/msokolov/43reno.vax on minnie (read by Rick Copeland from the
CSRG master provided by Marshall Kirk McKusick).
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 second file is the dd image of the miniroot filesystem. This string
appears in the /vmunix file inside (the kernel). kerberos.berkeley.edu was
a VAX. The tape in /usr/home/msokolov/43reno.vax has also been pressed from
kerberos.berkeley.edu.
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.
The third file is the dump of the full root filesystem. Again, this
string appears in the /vmunix file inside.
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
This is also obviously inside /vmunix. The set of supported CPUs is the
one for Reno.
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:
[names on manpage directories mentioning tahoe]
It is Reno. Trust me. "tahoe" appears in the names of some manpage
directories because some manpages are architecture-specific (tahoe is the
name of a computer architecture, just like vax, hp300, i386, etc.). The
tape is mislabeled, that's all.
Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
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