22 Feb
2020
22 Feb
'20
11:51 p.m.
OK, that does look like the official Mini-UNIX release from
Bell Labs in 1979. I'd have to look at the files in the .tap file
to verify this.
Note the name Mini-UNIX was also used by Andrew Tanenbaum
for the system he developed at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam
much later in 1987 independent of the Mini-UNIX that I developed
at Bell Labs in the mid 1970's. See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX
Heinz
On 2/22/2020 8:46 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
.tap files are simh
<https://github.com/simh/simh> format files and
'look like a mag-tape' to the simulated tape hardware.
There are tools that will convert to/from Bob's Simulator format as
needed.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:08 AM Ed Bradford <egbegb2(a)gmail.com
<mailto:egbegb2@gmail.com>> wrote:
How do I open a .tap file in the .zip file for mini-unix?
Also, do you have a date for this snapshot. A date would be
very useful for "product comparisons" at that date.
Ed
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 4:43 AM Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org
<mailto:aek@bitsavers.org>> wrote:
On 2/21/20 10:34 AM, Heinz Lycklama wrote:
I believe that the source code for this system
(Mini-UNIX) was
provided to some universities by the UNIX Support group at
Bell Labs. WE did not license this.
tape image at
http://bitsavers.org/bits/ATT/mini-unix_120679.zip
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