24 Nov
1998
24 Nov
'98
12:21 a.m.
Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com> writes:
That's useful. The Tahoe-specific documentation
also mentions
the Harris HCX-7, the Unisys 7000/40, and ICL Clan 7 - were
these in any way compatible with the Tahoe, or just "other"
ports?
Well, they have to be compatible somehow, since the same BSD tape was
used for all of them. Actually, there is much more to it. The Tahoe
architecture was specifically designed for BSD. CCI first made a vendor
release for their machines, kinda like SunOS and Ultrix, based on 4.2BSD.
Then some time after the 4.3BSD release CSRG designed to integrate CCI's
changes into the mainstream BSD tree. The result was named 4.3BSD-Tahoe.
What's interesting is that 4.3BSD-Tahoe does not have any bootblocks for
the Tahoe architecture, and the documentation often refers to the BSD
kernels being loaded by the system ROM on Tahoe. As you can imagine, having
the system ROM load your OS's kernels is one hell of a requirement, and the
Harris and Unisys machines would have to REALLY compatible with the CCI for
this to work. My guess would be that they were identical clones, just like
the PC clones that run unmodified PC-DOS.
And where does "Reno" come from, while
we're at it?
If I'm not mistaken, there is a city somewhere on the west side of the
U.S. called Tahoe/Reno. The BSD developers probably thought "OK, we already
have Tahoe, let's have Reno too." Reno also probably stands for
"renovation", although IMHO sawing the branch you are sitting on is pretty
damn stupid and certainly doesn't qualify as "renovation".
Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
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Subject: Re: 4.3/4.4 IBM distributions (need history)
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I think there were some additional licensing
restrictions on AOS (e.g.,
only available to educational institutions), so it might not be
includable in the archive. I can probably track down folks in Palo Alto
who worked AOS, and find out.
It might be good to find out any info or history or whatever, if anyone
still knows anything. If IBM does not particularly want it, it might
be nice to add to the archives, as an educational one-up on Gates.
As far as I know, there was never an
"official" ACIS release beyond the
1988 4.3BSD release. I have actual distribution tapes around somewhere,
and could probably make tape images available if it's determined that
that's OK.
Then what are the `Reno' and `Lite' builds that I have. I was assuming
they were all related, or were there other ports done outside IBM?
Now I am less clear on what it is I actually have......
P.S. We just dumpster-ized about 6 or 8 RTs from our
storage facility
in the last couple of weeks - I had tried to give them away, but
the person who was lined up to take them didn't move quite fast
enough, and the person assigned to storage clean-up got tired of
having them around ... :-(
Darn! Always one step behind and two weeks late.....
If there are any leftover AOS docs, or any leftover boards, particularly
the external ESDI, SCSI, TAPE, or ethernet boards, or any leftover mice,
that would be nice to locate. Also, a spare tape drive would not hurt.
Dupster fodder......(:+{{.....
Bob Keys
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PUPS List,
I have just put BSD Network Version 2 up on Minnie in the incoming
directory. This is from a
tape passed to me from Mr. Kirk McKusick. The file includes a readme and
is zipped with WinZip
version 6.22.
Sincerely,
Rick Copeland
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