5 Jan
2017
5 Jan
'17
3:58 a.m.
I worked on the ETA-10 (CDC spinoff, Neil Lincoln was the architect):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA10
No idea if the code is still around, I would guess it's lost. Be fun
if it showed up, I wrote a kmem "driver" so I could get my own version
of ps(1) to run. As I recall, it was an ioctl that just fed me back
everything I needed, it wasn't a kmem driver at all, this was my first
real job after grad school and I had no idea how to write a driver :)
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:24:37PM +0000, ron minnich wrote:
So there are a few ports I know of that I wonder if
they ever made it back
into that great github repo.I don't think they did.
harris
gould
That weird BBN 20-bit machine
(20 bits? true story: 5 4-bit modules fit in a 19" rack. So 20 bits)
Alpha port (Tru64)
Precision Architecture
Unix port to Cray vector machines
others? What's the list of "lost machines" look like? Would companies
consider a donation, do you think?
If that Cray port is of any interest I have a thread I can push on maybe.
but another true story: I visited DEC in 2000 or so, as LANL was about to
spend about $120M on an Alpha system. The question came up about the SRM
firmware for Alpha. As it was described to me, it was written in BLISS and
the only machine left that could build it was an 11/750, "somewhere in the
basement, man, we haven't turned that thing on in years". I suspect
there's
a lot of these containing oxide oersteds of interest.
ron
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