I've assembled some notes from old manuals and other sources
on the formats used for on-disk file systems through the
Seventh Edition:
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~norman/old-unix/old-fs.html
Additional notes, comments on style, and whatnot are welcome.
(It may be sensible to send anything in the last two categories
directly to me, rather than to the whole list.)
There were ports of PCC to the 8086, Z8000, and 68000 done by
MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. This might be a more
historically correct place to start.
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Thank you for your kind advice, Warren. However, I have tried most of the
other members of that directory, and yes, it does work. I am curious about
this one, because it appears to be decidely different then say an actual
distribution of V6. I am also looking at the ones that came from the
Research area.
Gregg C Levine drwho8(a)worldnet.att.net
"How many floors does this TARDIS of yours have, anyway?"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Toomey" <wkt(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
To: "Gregg C Levine" <drwho8(a)worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Tim Shoppa distribution of V6
> In article by Gregg C Levine:
> > On the FTP site, is a a V6 distribution contributed by Tim Shoppa. It is
> > created for the PDP-11/23, and there is a good readme.txt file that
explains
> > the different images, and how they got there. However, has anyone
actually
> > gotten the distribution to boot, using a version of Simh? A text file of
> > commands to be fed to the Simh program would be a great help.
> > I have mine, built using the MingW compiler, and this is version 2.9-10.
> > Also, if anyone has gotten it to boot on real hardware, that would a be
a
> > great plus.
>
> Gregg, I'd first try the other V6 boot images found in:
>
> http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Boot_Images
>
> e.g v6_rl02_unknown.gz
>
> to make sure that they will boot with the Supnik emulator.
> You might also find that the Supnik emulator can't emulate
> an 11/23. So I would also try the Ersatz emulator and set
> it's CPU to be a 23.
>
> In other words, try a known bootable image first, then
> try Ersatz-11 as an 11/23 on that same bootable image,
> and then try Tim Shoppa's image.
>
> Warren
>
Hello again from Gregg C Levine
On the FTP site, is a a V6 distribution contributed by Tim Shoppa. It is
created for the PDP-11/23, and there is a good readme.txt file that explains
the different images, and how they got there. However, has anyone actually
gotten the distribution to boot, using a version of Simh? A text file of
commands to be fed to the Simh program would be a great help.
I have mine, built using the MingW compiler, and this is version 2.9-10.
Also, if anyone has gotten it to boot on real hardware, that would a be a
great plus.
Gregg C Levine drwho8(a)worldnet.att.net
"How many floors does this TARDIS of yours have, anyway?"
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
Forwarded from a posting on news:alt.sys.pdp-11 that I made. Rather then
repost the entire message in perpetuity I decided to forward the whole
business to this list. As I am still deciding the best way to make use of
the whole file tree, without an actual machine living here, I decided to
download everything to this one, and then wait.
Gregg C Levine drwho8(a)att.net
"How many floors does this TARDIS of yours have, anyway?"
"Gregg C Levine" <drwho8(a)att.net> wrote in message
news:<20020625121449.XOEM20423.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@who>...
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Has anyone actually found this to happen? The TUH ftp site, has on it, a
> number of actual distributions for UNIX for the PDP-11. One of them was
> assembled by Tim Shoppa from a discarded machine. They were
> subsequently uploaded to that site. However on of the packs is missing.
> It is this one, "xxdp_with_1123.rl02: XXDP+ on RL02 pack, bootable."
> That is from the README file associated with the entire directory.
> Everything else is there, that one is not. What did happen to it, I
wonder.
> Gregg C Levine drwho8(a)att.net
>
>
In article by Dave Horsfall:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Randy Merkel wrote:
> > Golly, I think we have a spammer ;)
> Either he/she/it took the trouble to subscribe (few do), or the list
> is wide open; if the latter, expect more crap.
Open no more, and I have to approve subscriptions too :-)
Warren