31 Oct
2019
31 Oct
'19
1:51 p.m.
Hi Tom,
Kudos for making these things available. The links are great reading
as well.
I have the strong impression that this is different from the port
at Bell Labs described in the 1984 BSTJ article; can you confirm?
Warren, can you add the links into the README or whatever that's
in the archive?
Thanks,
Arnold
Tom Lyon <pugs(a)ieee.org> wrote:
Hi, folks. Tom Lyon here - this UNIX 370 stuff was
recovered by Stephen at
LCM+L from DECtapes that I've had sitting around for 40+ years.
You can read all about the Princeton/Amdahl project here:
https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/12/370unixpart1/
If anyone wants to get serious with the code, you'll need Hercules with a
VM/370 image as well as a PDP-11 emulator running V6. There's not a lot
beyond the kernel, I got the shell working enough to prove that fork
worked, and then ran out of steam because of the awful communication
problems between the PDP and the IBM. [ But that was my start as a
networking guy ]. I personally haven't had time to do anything with the
recovered bits.
I've been lurking on TUHS for a while - a special Hi to Ken Thompson and
Steve Johnson. I owe a lot to each of them. Read about my summer at Bell
with the Interdata 8/32 here: https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/16/belllabspart1/
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 9:04 PM Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
All, the second Unix artifact that I've been
waiting to announce has
arrived. This time the LCM+L is announcing it. It's not the booting PDP-7.
So, cast your eyes on https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/IBM/370/
Cheers, Warren
P.S Thanks to Stephen Jones for this as well.
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- Tom