TUHS November 2014

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16 discussions

by Jacob Ritorto

Jim / Nick, That's kinda my problem: can't find enough documentation on 2.10 to ascertain if I can / should run it. I know 2.9 is OK for the 11/34, but 2.9 doesn't have telnet or ftp and I want this machine to be easily reachable on the net. From what I've read, 2.11 is right out except for the little glimmer of hope in the docs that it "would probably only require a moderate amount of squeezing to fit on machines with less memory, but it would also be very unhappy about the prospect," which I think roughly translates to, "don't try it on a puny thing like an 11/34." I wonder if porting telnet and ftp to 2.9 on the 11/34 would be my best hope? But with a much more antique tcp stack, it sounds daunting. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Jim Carpenter <jim(a)deitygraveyard.com> wrote: > > > 2.10 and 2.11 require split I/D, right? I'm positive 2.9 was the > latest I could run on my 11/34. > > Jim >

9 years, 10 months

Coherent files mislabelled

by Cory Smelosky

Afternoon, Just tried to install http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Other/Coherent/compiler/ disk3 and disk4 got swapped, looks like gnu4 is actually disk3 and gnu3 is actually disk4. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects

9 years, 10 months

extend 2.11BSD window(1) to work with relatively enormous terminals

by Jacob Ritorto

Hi all, I've been using window(1) on my simh-emulated 11/73, but it can't handle terminals much larger than 80x24, failing with "Out of memory." I'd like to use window(1) to drive a big xterm, like 132x66, for instance, because I'd like to reduce the number of telnet connections to the host. How does one go about analyzing and remediating the memory contention in this environment? If anyone's interested, we could set up a pair programming session to work on it together, which I think would be most instructive, for me, at least. Bear in mind that this is just for pdp11 voyeurism / fun. thx jake

9 years, 10 months

Early Yacc revisited

by Mark Longridge

I've been thinking more about early yacc. It's not mentioned explicitly but I'm wondering if early Yacc's output (say in Unix version 3) was in B language since it was written in B language? It seems logical but I can't back up this assertion as there's no executable or source code that I can find. I assume there had to be some sort of B language compiler at some point but the hybrid v1/v2 unix I've looked at doesn't have it. And I'm still wondering what yacc was used for in the Unix v5 era. There's no *.y at all, e.g. no expr and no bc. I still have some hopes of modifying bc to run on Unix v5, or at least getting some simple yacc program to work under the v5 version. Mark

9 years, 10 months

AT&T video about Unix from 1982

by Jason Stevens

I just saw this video mentioned on reddit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories It features many of Bell UNIX folks, and even includes a brief example of speak in action at about the 15:20 mark. It's really cool to see the proliferation of UNIX by 1982 inside Bell.

9 years, 11 months

[tuhs] Xerox Alto and CP/M news

by Nelson H. F. Beebe

The Xerox Alto and CP/M are not Unix-derived, but the first in particular influenced the design of Unix workstations and the X11 Window System in the 1980s, so this story may be of interest to list readers: Exposed: Xerox Alto and CP/M OS source code released The Computer History Museum has made the code behind yet more historic software available for download http://www.itworld.com/article/2838925/exposed-xerox-alto-and-cp-m-os-sourc… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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TUHS November 2014