17 Sep
2021
17 Sep
'21
10:05 p.m.
Hi Warner,
Thanks for your reply!
V5 is the earliest Unix we have contemporary images from. We have fragments from
everything else earlier, including files scavenged/recovered from early DECtapes and some
code recovered from kernel listings from a Unix course that was put together by Bell
Labs...
What I foundon Wikipedia about Unix V5 is that is needs an MMU. " 5th Edition
Targetedthe PDP-11/40 and other 11 models with 18 bit addresses." Because it uses18
bit address space it probably expects 248K of memory. My machine does nothave a paging
option or mmu. So I think that means that I can't use V5 unfortunately...
The Unix 1972 project that some TUHS members did. I think it's in the TUHS
distribution archive, but also on github. I think Warren Toomey's repo is the
canonical one https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix-jun72
but https://github.com/c3x04/Unix-1st-Edition-jun72 has a couple of newer fixes for a
docker file to contain the simh simulator. I'm unsure what hardware that's
supported, though. The machine file suggests:
rk03/rk11 177400 disk RK
dc11 174000 tty? (not supp?)
tc11/tu56 177340 dec tape DTn (not showing up in simh?)
rf11/rs11 177460 fixed head disk RF
kw11-l 177546 clock CLK
pc11 177550 paper tape PTR/PTP
asr-33 177560 tty? TTI, TTO
which has an RK03, not sure how close that is to an RK05, so some tweaks may be needed.
That RK03 isa Diablo 31. It uses the same packs and same interface as the RK05 and is
100%compatible. The RK05 was build by Digital itself and not by Diablo any more. I have
the TC11/TU56, PC11, asr33 tty and KW11-L line clock as well. So that is almost the
complete list of devices you showed here...
So if it is possible to generate a RK03/RK05 disk image from that simulator then I think I
can put that on a real RK05 disk pack. But I'm completely new in this old Unix era...
So if anyone could help to generate such an image then it would be a great help!
Regards, Roland