26 May
2021
26 May
'21
8:53 a.m.
Super thanks I’ll take a look!
I guess I should also say the attempt at bringing Mach to the Amiga saved a few bits of
Mach when they were doing the Net/2 sub system, but then the lawsuit happened and as we
all know academia and the world moved away from the microkernel thing (well except for
Utah). But I guess now with the news of SeL4’s demise it’s basically all Linux and NT
these days.
From: Gregg Levine
Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2021 9:57 am
To: Jason Stevens
Cc: Sean Dwyer; tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks
Hello!
If it helps atll the strange people at Ibib managed to rescue the
collection that was running on the Linux distro side of the house, and
it's stored in their historic-linux directory.. Oh and the very early
Slackware stuff is available on the mirror of Slackware's FTP site on
the Mirror Services site at ftp.mirrorservice.org. Incidentally a very
early mirror of the TSX site is also inside that historic-linux
directory.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:13 PM Jason Stevens
<jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
Luckily in the rush to 0.99 the CD-ROM shovelware thing was in full swing so lots of
stuff got archived.
It’s the older stuff that was always purged like COFF patches, or OMF patches for older
stuff, or even missing stuff from the big projects like Emacs or GCC, and huge missing
gaps in other GNU projects of all things.
GCC 0.90-1.21 everything in between these two is missing. Is it so bad? Well it’s the
start of adding 3rd parties code and G++ stuff as well. Also lots of gaps in libraries.
Things like the core utils, and other user-land stuff is missing and what little I have
was snapshotted on DECUS archives.
Much like how binutils and Linux has/is removing a.out the old legacy stuff is being
swept out. Much as everyone else seems to try to kill 32bit stuff which makes running
ancient GCC on modern platforms a bit more challenging as I’ll have to do it under
emulation. If I had the time/knowledge a 64bit hosted copy of GCC 1.42 would be cool but
I think I may be the only one interested in compiling old Linux/BSD stuff with the
original tools on newer (and alien) platforms.
From: Sean Dwyer via TUHS
Sent: Friday, 21 May 2021 6:17 pm
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:33:46AM +0800, Jason Stevens wrote:
Is it okay for me to ask a question about Linux
that's from '91~'92?
Does anyone happen to have copies of H.J.
Lu's Bootable Root and the
associated Linux Base System disk images from the
early '90s?
I've managed to find a copy of 0.98.pl5-31
bootable root disk. But I
can't find any base disks to go along with
it.
The files used to be on
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/GCC in rootdisk and
basedisk subdirectories.
Unfortunately all of the mirrors I'm finding
of tsx-11 are newer, have
the basedisk directories, but no image files
there in.
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
I do have the boot/roots for kernel 0.99 pl 7 from my Yggdrasil disks of
July/August 1995 which I believe are also on archive.org. I used to have disks
from 1994 but they've been lost in time and I only have stuff from 94-97 now,
some of which are on archive.org already. Hope that helps.
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