At 04:17 PM 5/2/2022, Dan Cross wrote:
>I vaguely remember Metaware being somewhat religiously extreme, but again the details are fuzzy now. Was there some kind of ecclesiastical reference in the man page?
I have the manuals around somewhere, and that rings a bell.
I used Metaware High C and the Pharlap extender in the early 1990s
in the odd 32-bit DOS enviroment to make 3D import/export plugins for
Autodesk's 3D Studio.
- John
We got in on the W4 from the IBM Federal Systems guy (later dealt out to
Loral, Martin Marietta, and then Lockheed-Martin). I started with
those guy doing a contract job to craft the second nework interface into
Secure Xenix (Jacob Recter I think was responsible for the first) to
provide a secure downgrading system for some government entity.
Then Intel developed the i860- and IBM came up with the Wizard card.
This was only designed to be.a coprocessor card and was done down in
Boca Raton. The fun and games with that one is that we were on early
steppings of the processor chips and spent a lot of time coding around
chip bugs (mostly with regard to interrupts). IBM/Intel had developed
this thing called hostlink that was supposed to be useful, but we
decided to port AIX to it. When IBM Owego came up with the W4, we were
asked to port AIX again to it.
We had one non-functional W4 kicking around for demo purposes that had 4
“delidded” i860 chips in it. I swapped one for an early stepping
(useless) chip and kept one of the delidded ones which I still have in a
box somewhere.
[ This also in from Peter Klapper. The files are at:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/2.9BSD_MSCP/ ]
This is a 2.9BSD kernel with a backported MSCP driver from 2.10BSD
I tried to make a clean integration of the driver into the 2.9BSD source tree in order to be able use the standard procedures to configure and build the kernel.
To try it, rename the original directories /usr/include/sys and /usr/src/sys and unpack the two tar archives into your /usr directory.
Then change into /usr/src/sys/conf and just do a ./config for the kernel you want.
I made some configurations for:
MSCP23 (MSCP enabled kernel for the PDP11/23)
MSCP73 (MSCP enabled kernel for the PDP11/73)
FLOP23 (MSCP enabled 11/23 kernel for a boot floppy)
FLOP73 (MSCP enabled 11/73 kernel for a boot floppy)
MSCPSH (MSCP enabled kernel for an extended SIMH environment)
You may need to adapt the kernel configurations for the correct timezone and maybe the line frequency.
This is probably the most recent BSD system which runs on the PDP11/23.
Read the full story about this here: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/scientific-micro-systems-sms-1000…
There is NO root password in this distribution. For installation on real hardware, at least a Maxtor XT-1085 (RD53) or larger is recommended.
My SMS1000 system currently has a Maxtor XT-1140 installed. Original was an XT-1085 in the system.
The disk layout for these two disks during installation is as follows:
Maxtor XT-1085 / DEC RD53
=========================
1024/8/18
interleave 1,4
--- layout ---
root = ra(0,0), size 3200
swap = ra(0,6400), size 1920
usr = ra(0,10240), size 64180
Maxtor XT-1140
==============
918/15/18
interleave 1,4
--- layout ----
root = ra(0,0), size 3200
swap = ra(0,6400), size 1920
usr = ra(0,10240), size 114880
I've split the data into 4 parts in order to not get too much when downloading:
1.) 29bsd-simh.tgz: A SIMH image including configuration file. "pdp11 sms1123.ini"
2.) 29bsd-smstape.tgz: A Linux dump of the QIC24 installation tape which was generated with my SMS1000 system. You can write this under Linux to a 60MB QIC tape with: "dd if=29bsd-sms-tape.dd of=/dev/st0" The SMS1000 generated format is not compatible with Linux, but the Linux dd'ed tape can be read by the SMS1000 system.
3.) 29bsd-tapefiles.tgz: The files to create a SIMH tape image, or real tape for another system.
4.) 29bsd-vtserver.tgz: The version of the vtserver and the corresponding configuration file with which I performed the successful initial installation. I worked with 19200bps, which is the maximum my SMS1000 supports on the console, under 2.9BSD only 9600bps works anyway.
Have fun with it, if you find bugs, they may of course be mine. ;)
I wish you and the community also a lot of fun with this version of 2.9BSD.
// Peter
