From tuhs at cuzuco.com Fri Jun 5 13:48:53 2009 From: tuhs at cuzuco.com (Brian S Walden) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:48:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty Message-ID: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570 > So when do the official celebrations begin? What's a good estimate > of the month and date in 1969 when it all began? > > Tim Newsham From lm at bitmover.com Fri Jun 5 14:18:36 2009 From: lm at bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:18:36 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> Message-ID: <20090605041836.GA26815@bitmover.com> If there was some bright person here who had an idea as to how we might honor these guys, in a way they would like, let's go. They are geeks and we are too, seems like maybe someone could come up with an idea. If that idea requires money then let me know, millions isn't in the cards, but drop a couple of zeros and maybe we can do it. Regardless of all that. kudos to Brian, Dennis, and Ken. And Joe, because I still do my papers in troff, our invoices are in troff, and our logo is in troff. Our website is in troff -ms format, I wrote a perl script that generates the html. --lm On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:48:53PM -0400, Brian S Walden wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570 > > > So when do the official celebrations begin? What's a good estimate > > of the month and date in 1969 when it all began? > > > > Tim Newsham > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com From jcapp at anteil.com Fri Jun 5 21:42:04 2009 From: jcapp at anteil.com (Jim Capp) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 07:42:04 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: <20090605041836.GA26815@bitmover.com> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <20090605041836.GA26815@bitmover.com> Message-ID: Larry, How about a virtual birthday "card" where we make a site that people from all over the world can sign on and leave personalized "best wishes"? To promote it, we design a modest logo that people can place on their websites, linking to the site, allowing visitors to read the various "cards", and encouraging them to leave their own messages. We could add an /etc/passwd style listing of "users" with their own / etc/motd or "wishes of the day". We could bootstrap it with the original passwd entries, recognizing and saying "thank you" to the creators and contibutors of UNIX, in a wiki style with proper monitoring of course. What do you think? Jim On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:18 AM, lm at bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) wrote: > If there was some bright person here who had an idea as to how we > might > honor these guys, in a way they would like, let's go. They are geeks > and we are too, seems like maybe someone could come up with an idea. > > If that idea requires money then let me know, millions isn't in the > cards, but drop a couple of zeros and maybe we can do it. > > Regardless of all that. kudos to Brian, Dennis, and Ken. And Joe, > because I still do my papers in troff, our invoices are in troff, > and our logo is in troff. Our website is in troff -ms format, > I wrote a perl script that generates the html. > > --lm > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:48:53PM -0400, Brian S Walden wrote: >> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570 >> >>> So when do the official celebrations begin? What's a good estimate >>> of the month and date in 1969 when it all began? >>> >>> Tim Newsham >> _______________________________________________ >> TUHS mailing list >> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > From cowan at ccil.org Sat Jun 6 00:40:15 2009 From: cowan at ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:40:15 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> Message-ID: <20090605144015.GA27542@mercury.ccil.org> Brian S Walden scripsit: > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570 Not a bad article, really, but I do get very tired of this rigid separation of Linux and Unix. No, Linux doesn't have any AT&T code, but there isn't all that much left in Solaris or *BSD either (other than header files and such). And no, Linux distros aren't Unix-branded at present, but FWIU, that's because certification is neither fast nor cheap, and applies only to a given release. Commercial Linuxes have fast release cycles, and Debian, whose release cycles are slow, can't afford certification. But in terms of actual, rather than formal, compliance, Linux is as much a Unix as any branded Unix. -- The first thing you learn in a lawin' family John Cowan is that there ain't no definite answers cowan at ccil.org to anything. --Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird From iking at killthewabbit.org Sat Jun 6 02:06:39 2009 From: iking at killthewabbit.org (Ian King) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:06:39 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: <20090605144015.GA27542@mercury.ccil.org> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <20090605144015.GA27542@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: On Jun 5, 2009, at 7:40 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Brian S Walden scripsit: > >> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? >> command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570 > > Not a bad article, really, but I do get very tired of this rigid > separation of Linux and Unix. No, Linux doesn't have any AT&T code, > but there isn't all that much left in Solaris or *BSD either (other > than header files and such). And no, Linux distros aren't Unix- > branded > at present, but FWIU, that's because certification is neither fast nor > cheap, and applies only to a given release. Commercial Linuxes > have fast > release cycles, and Debian, whose release cycles are slow, can't > afford > certification. But in terms of actual, rather than formal, > compliance, > Linux is as much a Unix as any branded Unix. Not a very *good* article, either, IMHO. One gets the impression the author of the piece was given two or three pieces of data and instructed to write a historical drama around them. I also suspect he's never seen a PDP-7, either. Until about two years ago, one of these 'wimpy' machines was running a particle accelerator at the University of Oregon. It was unnecessary to slam the PDP-7 to make the point that Unix was created on a computer of modest resources. Unix bloat occurred for the same reason any other piece of software bloats up: users want to do less and get more. While it's true that some programmers and companies are better than others at adding features without adding heft, most find such exercise in economy unnecessary given the "throw another giga[byte | hertz] at it" culture that currently prevails. It's also amusing he introduces the NT kernel as some sort of 'perfect foil' to Unix, without even mentioning its VMS roots - as though it sprang fully formed from the aether. The reason NT was competitive is that Unix configuration and administration has never been a task for the meek. The goal of Windows was to reduce - or hide - complexity and lower the intellectual 'cost' of entry. It's not clear that newer versions have in fact accomplished that. :-) In other words, this read like any other popularized account - which would be expected, if it had been published in Ladies Home Journal. -- Ian From cowan at ccil.org Sat Jun 6 04:29:24 2009 From: cowan at ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:29:24 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <20090605144015.GA27542@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <20090605182924.GC31649@mercury.ccil.org> Ian King scripsit: > Not a very *good* article, either, IMHO. One gets the impression the > author of the piece was given two or three pieces of data and > instructed to write a historical drama around them. A bit more than that: the author credits Salus as his main source, so if you want more detail, you know where to get it. Remember the target audience. > I also suspect he's never seen a PDP-7, either. Few of us have, and even fewer have seen one running Unix, I dare say. For that matter, I never saw a PDP-11 running Unix, though I certainly heard plenty about it: my first Unix-in-anger was MS Xenix System III on a PC/AT with a 10 Mb hard drive. > It was unnecessary to slam the PDP-7 to make > the point that Unix was created on a computer of modest resources. "Wimpy" is a disrespectful word, undoubtedly. > In other words, this read like any other popularized account - which > would be expected, if it had been published in Ladies Home Journal. Is it actually necessary to slam _Ladies' Home Journal_ to make the point that _Computerworld_ is a popularizing magazine? Have you ever read even a single issue of LHJ? I have read many of them, though admittedly not since the 1970s. -- John Cowan cowan at ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan The present impossibility of giving a scientific explanation is no proof that there is no scientific explanation. The unexplained is not to be identified with the unexplainable, and the strange and extraordinary nature of a fact is not a justification for attributing it to powers above nature. --The Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. "telepathy" (1913) From neozeed at gmail.com Sat Jun 6 04:40:00 2009 From: neozeed at gmail.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:40:00 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> Message-ID: <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Brian S Walden wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570 > I've just posted my $0.02 on the whole thing, but to recap I think it's lame the author didn't try to track down any actual digital artifacts of the era. I've tried to make the Unix v1 resurrection project more 'accessible' to the 'masses' (albeit windows masses).. But I guess it's just not glitzy enough.. Or they just don't realize that it even exists. I guess what it is coming down to, if you want it done 'right' you're going to have to do it yourself. And I guess that would be to make something detailed to categorized the evolutionary steps of Unix from all the versions that are in the TUHS/PUPS archive. And if the multiuser facilities exist, to make as may different versions (free/unencumbered or even 'commercial?') available online for people to kick the tires... I don't know I may be just dreaming in the sense I figure I'd probably end up with something just as empty, but would people be willing to put forth some kind of wiki of antidotes of their usage of various Unix on platforms? Maybe I'm just babbling so if it sounding too grandiose feel free to say I'm delusional. But in some way it’d be cool to have a “Unix museum” online that could walk you thru the various versions, show off the features of each, and allow the person to actually logon to a system.. That being said, is there a way to “cap” the amount of CPU that SIMH uses? Like a good old fashioned throttle? From wkt at tuhs.org Sat Jun 6 09:30:40 2009 From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:30:40 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? In-Reply-To: <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:40:00PM -0400, Jason Stevens wrote: > I don't know I may be just dreaming in the sense I figure I'd probably > end up with something just as empty, but would people be willing to > put forth some kind of wiki of antidotes of their usage of various > Unix on platforms? Jason's e-mail gave me an idea. There's a website somewhere where some of the Mac developers captured anecdotes of the development of the Mac. How about a wiki-like website for Unix, which is a combination of an anecdote Wiki and a Wikipedia-for-Unix? The site could capture stories, technical documentation, historical summaries, usage tips etc. Where possible, articles would have citations, but the site should allow the storage of primary documents too, e.g. e-mails and old Usenet articles. I'd suggest that editing isn't open to the general public, but either by invitation or vetting. A group of people would be needed to watch out for seriously bad articles/editing. At the same time, Unix history has been very diverse and there has always been lots of opposing sub-groups, so the site would need to be able to capture & deal with this diversity, as would the people overseeing the site. Comments? Warren From cowan at ccil.org Sat Jun 6 09:39:43 2009 From: cowan at ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:39:43 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? In-Reply-To: <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20090605233943.GA10056@mercury.ccil.org> Warren Toomey scripsit: > Comments? Wikia uses MediaWiki, like Wikipedia, but is ad-driven and partitioned into individual wikis. Currently unix.wikia.com belongs to a spammer: maybe we could get it liberated by talking to the wikia admins. Alternatively, someone could host a MediaWiki installation. -- It was impossible to inveigle John Cowan Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Into offering the slightest apology For his Phenomenology. --W. H. Auden, from "People" (1953) From aek at bitsavers.org Sat Jun 6 09:50:06 2009 From: aek at bitsavers.org (Al Kossow) Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:50:06 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? In-Reply-To: <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <4A29AF2E.9080000@bitsavers.org> Warren Toomey wrote: > Jason's e-mail gave me an idea. There's a website somewhere where some > of the Mac developers captured anecdotes of the development of the Mac. > http://www.folklore.org/index.py From lm at bitmover.com Sat Jun 6 10:17:06 2009 From: lm at bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:17:06 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? In-Reply-To: <20090605233943.GA10056@mercury.ccil.org> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> <20090605233943.GA10056@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <20090606001706.GF10179@bitmover.com> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 07:39:43PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > Warren Toomey scripsit: > > > Comments? > > Wikia uses MediaWiki, like Wikipedia, but is ad-driven and partitioned > into individual wikis. Currently unix.wikia.com belongs to a spammer: > maybe we could get it liberated by talking to the wikia admins. > > Alternatively, someone could host a MediaWiki installation. We have 3Mbit/sec (two T1's bonded) to the net and an air conditioned machine room. I'm more than happy to stick a machine in that room and put whatever you guys want on it (debian? freebsd?) and make sure it is backed up. Other than that it's up to you, but if that helps I can have a box in there sometime next week. We do this for other folks, my sister is a director at Music Together and we've hosted their mail server for years. We're pretty stable as an organization, I can commit to a 5 year term and unless the shit hits the fan I see no reason it can't go longer than that. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com From jcapp at anteil.com Sat Jun 6 11:29:53 2009 From: jcapp at anteil.com (Jim Capp) Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:29:53 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? In-Reply-To: <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <4A29C691.8020605@anteil.com> Warren Toomey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:40:00PM -0400, Jason Stevens wrote: > >> I don't know I may be just dreaming in the sense I figure I'd probably >> end up with something just as empty, but would people be willing to >> put forth some kind of wiki of antidotes of their usage of various >> Unix on platforms? >> > > Jason's e-mail gave me an idea. There's a website somewhere where some > of the Mac developers captured anecdotes of the development of the Mac. > How about a wiki-like website for Unix, which is a combination of an > anecdote Wiki and a Wikipedia-for-Unix? > > The site could capture stories, technical documentation, historical > summaries, usage tips etc. Where possible, articles would have citations, > but the site should allow the storage of primary documents too, e.g. > e-mails and old Usenet articles. > > I'd suggest that editing isn't open to the general public, but either by > invitation or vetting. A group of people would be needed to watch out for > seriously bad articles/editing. At the same time, Unix history has been > very diverse and there has always been lots of opposing sub-groups, so > the site would need to be able to capture & deal with this diversity, as > would the people overseeing the site. > > Comments? > Warren > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > Warren, Have you followed Groklaw? Years ago, we put together a simple database to capture information on UNIX, books, technical papers, etc., for Groklaw. It is still running to this day: http://groklib.anteil.com/books/basic_list It has a permanent spot on Groklaw's left hand menu ... http://www.groklaw.net We have physical and virtual servers located in a colo-center with dual 10-meg fiber to 8 N. Broad St. in Philadelphia. The site has battery and generator backup. Cheers, Jim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grog at lemis.com Sat Jun 6 13:12:27 2009 From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:12:27 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? In-Reply-To: <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20090606031227.GC13220@dereel.lemis.com> On Saturday, 6 June 2009 at 9:30:40 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:40:00PM -0400, Jason Stevens wrote: >> I don't know I may be just dreaming in the sense I figure I'd probably >> end up with something just as empty, but would people be willing to >> put forth some kind of wiki of antidotes of their usage of various >> Unix on platforms? > > Jason's e-mail gave me an idea. There's a website somewhere where some > of the Mac developers captured anecdotes of the development of the Mac. > How about a wiki-like website for Unix, which is a combination of an > anecdote Wiki and a Wikipedia-for-Unix? This is an excellent idea. Count me in, and count a vote for Mediawiki while you're at it. > I'd suggest that editing isn't open to the general public, but > either by invitation or vetting. A group of people would be needed > to watch out for seriously bad articles/editing. At the same time, > Unix history has been very diverse and there has always been lots of > opposing sub-groups, so the site would need to be able to capture & > deal with this diversity, as would the people overseeing the site. I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, it makes perfect sense. On the other, part of the advantage of things like Wikipedia is that everything's in one place. I honestly don't see the TUHS people being active enough to produce anywhere like as much material as is already present on Wikipedia. Wikipedia has various "projects" which concern themselves with certain subtopics (or they had them; looking at various pages, I can no longer see any hints). Does anybody know more details? If we could find a way to get a few knowledgeable, active people to ensure the consistency and accuracy of UNIX-related articles, that could be a better approach. Greg -- Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: From cowan at ccil.org Sat Jun 6 14:11:16 2009 From: cowan at ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:11:16 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Wikipedia for Unix? In-Reply-To: <20090606031227.GC13220@dereel.lemis.com> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <46b366130906051140m35e27e17i4f124fb74be3d0f7@mail.gmail.com> <20090605233040.GA35610@minnie.tuhs.org> <20090606031227.GC13220@dereel.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20090606041116.GC6139@mercury.ccil.org> Greg 'groggy' Lehey scripsit: > On the other, part of the advantage of things like Wikipedia is that > everything's in one place. Ah, if only there were services that allowed people to find things on the Web, no matter what site they were on! > I honestly don't see the TUHS people being > active enough to produce anywhere like as much material as is already > present on Wikipedia. But on a private wiki there's no issue with "notability" and the Deletionist Brigade. -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org [T]here is a Darwinian explanation for the refusal to accept Darwin. Given the very pessimistic conclusions about moral purpose to which his theory drives us, and given the importance of a sense of moral purpose in helping us cope with life, a refusal to believe Darwin's theory may have important survival value. --Ian Johnston From iking at killthewabbit.org Sat Jun 6 15:20:47 2009 From: iking at killthewabbit.org (Ian King) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:20:47 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: <20090605182924.GC31649@mercury.ccil.org> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <20090605144015.GA27542@mercury.ccil.org> <20090605182924.GC31649@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: On Jun 5, 2009, at 11:29 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Ian King scripsit: >> > >> In other words, this read like any other popularized account - which >> would be expected, if it had been published in Ladies Home Journal. > > Is it actually necessary to slam _Ladies' Home Journal_ to make the > point > that _Computerworld_ is a popularizing magazine? Have you ever > read even > a single issue of LHJ? I have read many of them, though admittedly > not > since the 1970s. > I offer my sincere apology to Ladies Home Journal. -- Ian From steve at quintile.net Tue Jun 9 21:43:36 2009 From: steve at quintile.net (Steve Simon) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:43:36 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] pdu Message-ID: <1b1dfa4d836179294c1014e6e04eb6d0@quintile.net> Hi, Anyone any info on PDU (Portable Distributed Unix) A one-time competitor to RFS (the one-time competitor to NFS). I have read that PDU is releated to the Newcastle connection, but how did it differ? Also, is there any relationship between either PDU or RFS and the Eightth or Nineth edition network file systems (NETA and NETB)? -Steve From neozeed at gmail.com Fri Jun 12 05:36:37 2009 From: neozeed at gmail.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:36:37 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] front page on slashdot! Message-ID: <46b366130906111236o20f11802pfce3f9ec9d1208ba@mail.gmail.com> Congrats to all the v1 team: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/11/181223/Saving-Unix-Heritage-One-Kernel-At-a-Time From imp at bsdimp.com Fri Jun 12 06:10:18 2009 From: imp at bsdimp.com (M. Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:10:18 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [TUHS] front page on slashdot! In-Reply-To: <46b366130906111236o20f11802pfce3f9ec9d1208ba@mail.gmail.com> References: <46b366130906111236o20f11802pfce3f9ec9d1208ba@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090611.141018.70799548.imp@bsdimp.com> In message: <46b366130906111236o20f11802pfce3f9ec9d1208ba at mail.gmail.com> Jason Stevens writes: : Congrats to all the v1 team: : : http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/11/181223/Saving-Unix-Heritage-One-Kernel-At-a-Time Speaking of which, what's the state of the world wrt v2, v3, v4 and v5? Warner From spedraja at gmail.com Fri Jun 12 07:49:15 2009 From: spedraja at gmail.com (SPC) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:49:15 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] front page on slashdot! In-Reply-To: <46b366130906111236o20f11802pfce3f9ec9d1208ba@mail.gmail.com> References: <46b366130906111236o20f11802pfce3f9ec9d1208ba@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Very emotional. Sincerely Sergio 2009/6/11 Jason Stevens > Congrats to all the v1 team: > > > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/11/181223/Saving-Unix-Heritage-One-Kernel-At-a-Time > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wkt at tuhs.org Fri Jun 12 11:26:01 2009 From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:26:01 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] front page on slashdot! In-Reply-To: <20090611.141018.70799548.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <46b366130906111236o20f11802pfce3f9ec9d1208ba@mail.gmail.com> <20090611.141018.70799548.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20090612012601.GA11935@minnie.tuhs.org> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 02:10:18PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Speaking of which, what's the state of the world wrt v2, v3, v4 and v5? Most of the following is in http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/ v1: full kernel source on paper, which has been scanned in and brought back to life with the v2 user-mode binaries (see below) v2: paper copy of Programmers Manual is scanned in, some binary user-mode executables and bits of user-mode source code, no kernel anything v3: machine readable copy of Programmers Manual, nothing else just before v4: kernel source in C, aka the 'nsys' kernel v4: machine readable copy of Programmers Manual, nothing else v5: bootable disk image with full source and binaries, NO machine readable copy of the Programmers Manual, but there is a paper copy of the UPM which I have not yet scanned in. v6: bootable disk image with full source and binaries, machine readable copy of the Programmers Manual v7: bootable disk image with full source and binaries, machine readable copy of the Programmers Manual Cheers, Warren From newsham at lava.net Fri Jun 19 01:41:14 2009 From: newsham at lava.net (Tim Newsham) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:41:14 -1000 (HST) Subject: [TUHS] Good luck Warren! Message-ID: Warren's talk on 40 years of unix is today, I believe. Good luck! Let us know how it goes. Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ From wkt at tuhs.org Fri Jun 19 04:14:44 2009 From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:14:44 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Good luck Warren! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090618181444.GA12546@minnie.tuhs.org> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:41:14AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: > Warren's talk on 40 years of unix is today, I believe. Good luck! > Let us know how it goes. Yes, 4pm San Diego localtime today. Thanks. I'll try to do an audio recording as I go & will put it up soon. Cheers, Warren From norman at oclsc.org Fri Jun 19 05:01:36 2009 From: norman at oclsc.org (Norman Wilson) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:01:36 -0000 Subject: [TUHS] Good luck Warren! Message-ID: <1245351383.28476.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Warren's also giving a birds-of-a-feather session at USENIX this evening at 2000. Norman Wilson Toronto ON (San Diego CA) From wkt at tuhs.org Sat Jun 20 03:08:13 2009 From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:08:13 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Good luck Warren! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090619170813.GA34483@minnie.tuhs.org> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:41:14AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: > Warren's talk on 40 years of unix is today, I believe. Good luck! > Let us know how it goes. It went well, as did the BoF later that night where we had about 30 people with a few old farts but mostly young-uns. I showed them V1 running, as well as nsys and V7. Video of my presentation is here: http://minnie.tuhs.org/Z/toomey.mov Paper: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf Slides: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix09/tech/slides/toomey.pdf Cheers, Warren From wkt at tuhs.org Sun Jun 21 02:13:26 2009 From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:13:26 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Good luck Warren! In-Reply-To: References: <20090619170813.GA34483@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20090620161326.GA63207@minnie.tuhs.org> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:34:22PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: > I just got to watch the video (slow download) and it looks > like the talk went very well! What was the BOF like? Did > you get a chance to demo the system and have people poke at it? Yes, the BOF went well, about 30 people from various vintages, a few young Linux-types, but also old farts like Norman Wilson, Andrew Hume and Bill Cheswick. I showed them V1 in action, but not ed as my ed skills are not flash. Also showed V5, V7, but didn't get nsys working. Still, showed them the nsys code. Lots of stories & anecdotes. It went for 2 hours or so, with a few stragglers left chatting after that for another 1/2 hour. Overall a good response. Cheers, Warren From spedraja at gmail.com Fri Jun 26 04:57:47 2009 From: spedraja at gmail.com (SPC) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:57:47 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Can't load split I&D files (in one PDP-11/23 PLUS) Message-ID: Well, the matter is simple: I'm trying to install 2.11 BSD in one PDP-11/23 PLUS with 4MB of ram, and the 'restor' and 'icheck' utilities don't load in he PDP, returning this message: "Can't load split I&D files" I tried with the diverse distributions of Vtserver and diverse versions of 'restor'. In the case of the 2.9BSD this don't happen but the utility can't understand what is the 'vt' device. Someone has encountered and solved this problem ? Regards Sergio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wb at freebie.xs4all.nl Fri Jun 26 06:49:30 2009 From: wb at freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:49:30 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Can't load split I&D files (in one PDP-11/23 PLUS) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> Quoting SPC, who wrote on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:57:47PM +0200 .. > Well, the matter is simple: I'm trying to install 2.11 BSD in one PDP-11/23 > PLUS with 4MB of ram, and the 'restor' and 'icheck' utilities don't load in > he PDP, returning this message: > > "Can't load split I&D files" > > I tried with the diverse distributions of Vtserver and diverse versions of > 'restor'. In the case of the 2.9BSD this don't happen but the utility can't > understand what is the 'vt' device. > > Someone has encountered and solved this problem ? I could be wrong, but I think the 11/23 is not a split ID CPU? Wilko From lbickley at bickleywest.com Fri Jun 26 07:12:54 2009 From: lbickley at bickleywest.com (Lyle Bickley) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:12:54 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Can't load split I&D files (in one PDP-11/23 PLUS) In-Reply-To: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <200906251412.54705.lbickley@bickleywest.com> On Thursday 25 June 2009, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Quoting SPC, who wrote on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:57:47PM +0200 .. > > Well, the matter is simple: I'm trying to install 2.11 BSD in one PDP-11/23 > > PLUS with 4MB of ram, and the 'restor' and 'icheck' utilities don't load in > > he PDP, returning this message: > > > > "Can't load split I&D files" > > > > I tried with the diverse distributions of Vtserver and diverse versions of > > 'restor'. In the case of the 2.9BSD this don't happen but the utility can't > > understand what is the 'vt' device. > > > > Someone has encountered and solved this problem ? > > I could be wrong, but I think the 11/23 is not a split ID CPU? That's correct. The 11/23 supported 256K memory and separate Kernel and User but not separate I&D. An 11/73 does support separate I&D... Regards, Lyle > > Wilko > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero" From pete at dunnington.plus.com Fri Jun 26 07:26:06 2009 From: pete at dunnington.plus.com (Pete Turnbull) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:26:06 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Can't load split I&D files (in one PDP-11/23 PLUS) In-Reply-To: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <4A43EB6E.1030807@dunnington.plus.com> On 25/06/2009 21:49, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Quoting SPC, who wrote on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:57:47PM +0200 .. >> Well, the matter is simple: I'm trying to install 2.11 BSD in one PDP-11/23 >> PLUS with 4MB of ram, and the 'restor' and 'icheck' utilities don't load in >> he PDP, returning this message: >> >> "Can't load split I&D files" >> >> I tried with the diverse distributions of Vtserver and diverse versions of >> 'restor'. In the case of the 2.9BSD this don't happen but the utility can't >> understand what is the 'vt' device. >> >> Someone has encountered and solved this problem ? > > I could be wrong, but I think the 11/23 is not a split ID CPU? Correct, it isn't. You cannot run 2.11BSD in a PDP-11/23 or similar machine because a lot of things in 2.11BSD require split I&D. It's declared on the first page of the setup instructions: "This distribution can be booted on a PDP-11 with 1Mb of memory or more, separate I&D, and with any of the following disks:" You need an 11/73 or better to have split I&D. For those who might not know what that means, it refers to the processor's ability to keep I(nstructions) and D(ata) in separate spaces, so in effect virtually doubling the amount of memory that can be used. That is, you can have (almost) 64K of instructions *and* (almost) 64K of data at the same time. Without split I&D, you have 64K in total for both. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York From wb at freebie.xs4all.nl Fri Jun 26 07:31:44 2009 From: wb at freebie.xs4all.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:31:44 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Can't load split I&D files (in one PDP-11/23 PLUS) In-Reply-To: References: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20090625213144.GH10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> Quoting Bill Pechter, who wrote on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 05:19:47PM -0400 .. > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Quoting SPC, who wrote on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:57:47PM +0200 .. > >> Well, the matter is simple: I'm trying to install 2.11 BSD in one PDP-11/23 > >> PLUS with 4MB of ram, and the 'restor' and 'icheck' utilities don't load in > >> he PDP, returning this message: > >> > >>   "Can't load split I&D files" > >> > >> I tried with the diverse distributions of Vtserver and diverse versions of > >> 'restor'. In the case of the 2.9BSD this don't happen but the utility can't > >> understand what is the 'vt' device. > >> > >> Someone has encountered and solved this problem ? > > > > I could be wrong, but I think the 11/23 is not a split ID CPU? > > > > Wilko > > _______________________________________________ > > TUHS mailing list > > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > > > IIRC -- Split I&D 11/45,11/50/11/55,11/70,11/44 and the 11/73 J11 and > 11/83, 11/84, 11/94. > > I think the 11/40 and the 11/34 didn't have it. I don't think the I am sure the 11/34 did not, I used an 11/34 once with UNIX. > 11/60 did either. > The 11/03, 11/23 and 11/23 plus and 11/24 didn't. > > Bill > -- > d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now! > pechter-at-gmail.com --- End of quoted text --- From pechter at gmail.com Fri Jun 26 07:19:47 2009 From: pechter at gmail.com (Bill Pechter) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:19:47 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Can't load split I&D files (in one PDP-11/23 PLUS) In-Reply-To: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Quoting SPC, who wrote on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:57:47PM +0200 .. >> Well, the matter is simple: I'm trying to install 2.11 BSD in one PDP-11/23 >> PLUS with 4MB of ram, and the 'restor' and 'icheck' utilities don't load in >> he PDP, returning this message: >> >>   "Can't load split I&D files" >> >> I tried with the diverse distributions of Vtserver and diverse versions of >> 'restor'. In the case of the 2.9BSD this don't happen but the utility can't >> understand what is the 'vt' device. >> >> Someone has encountered and solved this problem ? > > I could be wrong, but I think the 11/23 is not a split ID CPU? > > Wilko > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > IIRC -- Split I&D 11/45,11/50/11/55,11/70,11/44 and the 11/73 J11 and 11/83, 11/84, 11/94. I think the 11/40 and the 11/34 didn't have it. I don't think the 11/60 did either. The 11/03, 11/23 and 11/23 plus and 11/24 didn't. Bill -- d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now! pechter-at-gmail.com From lbickley at bickleywest.com Fri Jun 26 08:17:10 2009 From: lbickley at bickleywest.com (Lyle Bickley) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:17:10 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Can't load split I&D files (in one PDP-11/23 PLUS) In-Reply-To: <4A43EB6E.1030807@dunnington.plus.com> References: <20090625204930.GC10610@freebie.xs4all.nl> <4A43EB6E.1030807@dunnington.plus.com> Message-ID: <200906251517.10301.lbickley@bickleywest.com> On Thursday 25 June 2009, Pete Turnbull wrote: > On 25/06/2009 21:49, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Quoting SPC, who wrote on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:57:47PM +0200 .. > >> Well, the matter is simple: I'm trying to install 2.11 BSD in one PDP-11/23 > >> PLUS with 4MB of ram, and the 'restor' and 'icheck' utilities don't load in > >> he PDP, returning this message: > >> > >> "Can't load split I&D files" > >> > >> I tried with the diverse distributions of Vtserver and diverse versions of > >> 'restor'. In the case of the 2.9BSD this don't happen but the utility can't > >> understand what is the 'vt' device. > >> > >> Someone has encountered and solved this problem ? > > > > I could be wrong, but I think the 11/23 is not a split ID CPU? > > Correct, it isn't. You cannot run 2.11BSD in a PDP-11/23 or similar > machine because a lot of things in 2.11BSD require split I&D. It's > declared on the first page of the setup instructions: > > "This distribution can be booted on a PDP-11 with 1Mb of memory or > more, separate I&D, and with any of the following disks:" > > You need an 11/73 or better to have split I&D. For those who might not > know what that means, it refers to the processor's ability to keep > I(nstructions) and D(ata) in separate spaces, so in effect virtually > doubling the amount of memory that can be used. That is, you can have > (almost) 64K of instructions *and* (almost) 64K of data at the same > time. Without split I&D, you have 64K in total for both. As Pete says, you can't run 2.11 on an 11/23. However, I do run 2.9 BSD on my 11/34 as it does NOT require seperate I&D as does 2.11 BSD. Might want to try using 2.9 on your 11/23. Here's the CPUs supported by 2.9 BSD: 11/23, 11/24, 11/34, 11/34A, 11/34C, 11/40, 11/44, 11/45, 11/55, 11/70 Min. required memory is 192K Regards, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero" From wkt at tuhs.org Fri Jun 26 11:44:27 2009 From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:44:27 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Whence the 2.x BSD numbering? Message-ID: <20090626014427.GA35098@minnie.tuhs.org> Can anybody explain why the 2BSDs that were distributed with kernel source code are numbered 2.8BSD upwards. Why start numbering at 8? P.S Actually I have a 2.79BSD in the archive which came out in 1979 just before 2.8BSD, so could it be that the '2.79' means 1979, and numbering followed incrementally after that? Cheers, Warren From imp at bsdimp.com Fri Jun 26 12:27:53 2009 From: imp at bsdimp.com (M. Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:27:53 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [TUHS] Whence the 2.x BSD numbering? In-Reply-To: <20090626014427.GA35098@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20090626014427.GA35098@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20090625.202753.-1665546165.imp@bsdimp.com> The FreeBSD (similar in the other BSDs) family tree file shows: Sixth Edition (V6) -----* \ | \ | \ | Seventh Edition (V7) | \ | \ 1BSD 32V | \ 2BSD---------------* \ / | \ / | \/ | 3BSD | | | 4.0BSD 2.7.9BSD | | 4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD | | so if the 2.7.9 is really 2.79, I'd like to know about it. And the chronology lists: 2BSD mid 1978 [QCU] 75 2BSD tapes shipped 2.7.9BSD ?? [SMS] 2.8BSD 1981-07-xx [KSJ] 2.8.1BSD 1982-01-xx [QCU] set of performance improvements [KSJ] Michael J. Karels, Carl F. Smith, and William F. Jolitz. Changes in the Kernel in 2.9BSD. Second Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX Version 2.9, July, 1983. [QCU] Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. [SMS] Steven M. Schultz. 2.11BSD, UNIX for the PDP-11. Googling for [KSJ] is beyond my humble abilities... The numbers from [QCU] are about right for 2.7.9 to really be 2.79, eg the 79th tape that left Berkeley before they switched... But that's wild speculation based on little more than whimsy and knowing how geeks sometimes think... Warner From lbickley at bickleywest.com Fri Jun 26 14:51:09 2009 From: lbickley at bickleywest.com (Lyle Bickley) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:51:09 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Unix Version Hisory... Message-ID: <200906252151.09454.lbickley@bickleywest.com> There's what looks to be a detailed timeline of UNIX history here: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ Regards, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"