Thanks, Marcus.
Glad to hear it works on Slackware too. My first distro was Slackware
with SLS's X, if I remember correctly. I've installed 15, too, for X
explorations last year. Very clean.
Thanks,
Will
On 7/23/23 05:15, Marcus Clark wrote:
Thanks Will, for an interesting video on setting up
and using Unix v7
in OpenSIMH.
I usually follow your blog post instructions, which are always clear
and accurate, but it was nice to have a video version.
You mention different systems you have tested it on, and I can confirm
it all works fine on Slackware Linux 15.0 and -current with no problems.
Marcus.
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*From:* Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com>
*Sent:* 16 July 2023 03:06
*To:* The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
*Subject:* [TUHS] Posted a video on installing and running v7
Hi All,
I got some questions recently about getting v7 working, so I fired up
OBS to create a video walkthrough of the install process and first
steps (it's basically following my v7 note, but hey some folks dig
video). The video is totally amateur hour, but it was fun. I never get
tired of logging in as dmr, writing hello.c, running cc, running hello
and watch the magic of
hello, world
appear on "screen".
As a reminder - the note (and thus, the video) walks the user through
installing OpenSIMH (including pdp11), building a tape image,
installing to disk from tape, booting off the disk, building and using
a DZ-11 as a telnet listener on 16 lines, adding a user, running
learn, and piddly stuff like setting baud, delays, and such. Not a lot
of hand-holding, but some.
When I get around to it, I'll probably update the note to add
additional test environments (I'm pretty sure it works anywhere
OpenSIMH does, but some folks like to see there system or one kinda
like it in the list of tested systems). I'm running LMDE5 and Debian
12 Bookworm these days, so I know they work there in addition to
pretty much any Linux Mint, MX Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS, etc.
I'm still in awe of Hayle and Ritchie's Setting Up Unix - Seventh
Edition as the basis of my note - 44 y.o. and counting... for holding
up so well.
The blog:
https://decuser.github.io <https://decuser.github.io>
The blog post:
https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/videos/2023/07/14/installin…
<https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/videos/2023/07/14/installing-and-using-research-unix-v7-in-open-simh-video.html>
The note blog post:
https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/2022/10/28/installing-and-u…
<https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/2022/10/28/installing-and-using-research-unix-v7-in-open-simh-pdp-11-45-and-70-emulators-rev-3.1.html>
Later,
Will