[TUHS] Re: Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick

Well, I suppose I can tar it up and send it to Warren then? -Henry On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 15:23, Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote: > The JHU kernel was Version 6 (Research). All the development was done by > the Undergraduate Computer Society at Johns Hopkins notably: Mike Muuss, > Robert Jesse, me, Robert Miles, and a few others. Mike went to BRL around > the summer of 1979. Any changes after that were done by BRL (federal) > employees). So once you have the rights for V6 there’s nothing really > additional. We did add the V7 file system as a switch but I think that > wasn’t done with V7 code. > > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> > To "Ron Natalie" <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> > Cc "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> > Date 6/10/2025 2:09:04 PM > Subject Re: Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick > > It's one of the hidden gems of the PDP-11 world. I'm not clear on its > legal status so I don't know if what's there can be redistributed, but it's > an extremely mature PDP-11 OS. > > -Henry > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 13:57, Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote: > >> By the way. I’d like to thank you for mentioning the brl.pdp11 >> distribution below. I had despaired that I was never going to find a >> copy of the kernel that I cut my teeth on developing. I was able to >> download the set from Kirk yesterday and it is destined to replace the 2.8 >> BSD that I’m using oin my PiDP-11/70. >> >> >> >> >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> >> To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> >> Date 6/9/2025 4:33:10 PM >> Subject [TUHS] MACRO-11 >> >> Hi all, >> >> Do sources exist for a MACRO-11 assembler for UNIX? The only package I >> have found is written in MACRO-11 and relies on a provided binary to >> regenerate itself; it's on the brl.pdp11 archive on the CSRG DVD. >> >> -Henry >> >>