emanuel stiebler <emu(a)ecubics.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> why this version isn't in the pups archive ?
Generally it's my job as the TUHS 4BSD coordinator to ensure the completeness
of TUHS 4BSD collection, but right now I can't do anything, since Rick Copeland
has Marshall Kirk McKusick's tapes, not me.
Rick, would you please decide whether or not you are interested in reading
_ALL_ of Marshall Kirk McKusick's tapes? If you are, please read them. If not,
please return them to Kirk so that someone more industrious and motivated can
take a stab at them (I have Kirk's OK).
Michael Sokolov
TUHS 4BSD Coordinator
4.3BSD-* Maintainer
Quasijarus Project Principal Architect & Developer
Phone: 440-449-0299 or 216-217-2579
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu
TUHS WWW page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/TUHS/
Quasijarus WWW page: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/
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allisonp(a)world.std.com (Allison J Parent) wrote:
> Get that out of there fast, it's copyrighted firmware!
The PUPS archive already contains some PDP-11 boot/diag/etc. odds and ends. Why
not have VAX ones too?
But if too many people start complaining, I'll just move the entire odds-ends
directory to one of my friend's _anonymous_ FTP site.
BTW, there is a long tradition of shipping DEC odds and ends with UNIX. Just
look at pcs750.bin, or at DEC-contributed device drivers in 4.3BSD, or at the
fact that if you do a strings(1) on 4.3BSD /genvmunix, you'll see DEC's
copyright and the word "ULTRIX" in a whole bunch of places. Ancient UNIX and
Ancient DEC live together very well. Please don't separate them. If our group
(PUPS/TUHS) loves and cares for Ancient UNIX, we should also love and care for
Ancient DEC.
And finally, some of the files in my odds-ends directory were originally
recovered from some BSD distribution (the ULTRIX rabads program, which despite
its DEC copyright, ULTRIX origin, and binary-only nature came with some BSD
distributions).
Michael Sokolov
TUHS 4BSD Coordinator
4.3BSD-* Maintainer
Quasijarus Project Principal Architect & Developer
Phone: 440-449-0299 or 216-217-2579
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu
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From: "emanuel stiebler" <emu(a)ecubics.com>
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Hi all,
why this version isn't in the pups archive ?
cheers,
emanuel
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From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls(a)rek.tjls.com>
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On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:21:38PM -0700, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> Hi all,
> why this version isn't in the pups archive ?
>
> cheers,
> emanuel
It would be nice to have the pre-4.4 (was it 4.4-alpha?) and 4.4BSD
distributions, as shipped by CSRG, in the archive.
What would be even nicer would be the entire system as of the last
time it was touched -- the AT&T-encumbered system which would correspond
to the free 4.4BSD-Lite2 distribution which was the last public output
from CSRG.
Did anyone ever build a distribution of such a system? Is it feasible
to do so now? I don't have a firm grasp on which architectures would
actually compile and run as of that point in the SCCS files -- would
VAX, using the old VM system? I'd assume hp300 would work, since it
was the primary development platform, right? Had the LBL SPARC port
been integrated?
--
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<I have added the EPROM image from my KA650-B V1.2 CPU to the VAX firmware
<collection in Distributions/4bsd/odds-ends in the PUPS archive.
Get that out of there fast, it's copyrighted firmware!
Allison
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Dear PUPS/TUHS members,
I have added the EPROM image from my KA650-B V1.2 CPU to the VAX firmware
collection in Distributions/4bsd/odds-ends in the PUPS archive.
Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
Phone: 440-449-0299
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu
Dear PUPS/TUHS members,
I have just created a new directory in the 4BSD area of the PUPS archive,
Distributions/4bsd/odds-ends.
This directory contains various DEC odds and ends: microcodes, ROM images,
diags, VMS/Ultrix booters and bits, etc.
The following items are currently available:
rabads.core Ultrix rabads program, pure core version for putting onto
console media and loading via console commands.
rabads.a.out Ultrix rabads program, a.out version for putting onto a UNIX
filesystem and loading via UNIX boot.
scsimfm.bin EPROM image from the SCSI/MFM daughterboard for KA42.
This list is certain to grow very soon.
Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
Phone: 440-449-0299
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu
Dear PUPS/TUHS members,
I have just updated the Quasijarus Project WWW page set, adding the features
page listing all features added to the master source tree since the currently
shipping release. You can find this new page at:
http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/features.html
I have also changed my plans regarding the shadow and shared passwords. See:
http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/passwd.html
Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
Cellular phone: 216-217-2579
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu
In article by Tom Ivar Helbekkmo:
> Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> writes:
>
> > Patrick Regan, from Bell Labs, has sent in a 2M jpg of
> > Ken and Dennis at the console of a PDP-11/20, around 1970.
>
> That's neat! I've got a very good print of it here (that huge Epson
> color inkjet printer we bought at work really does a good job with the
> expensive "photo quality" paper in it), and will frame it and hang it
> on the wall of my basement machine room in my home. However (and my
> ignorance is showing now, I know) who is whom in the picture?
Dennis is the one, bearded, on the left. Ken is sitting at the
terminal.
Warren
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> Subject: Re: UNIX V6.TAPE
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:50:59 +1100 (EST)
>
> In article by alejandro gonzalez:
> >
> > Can anyone point me to instructions on getting the tape in: Ken_Wellsch_v6
> > up and running on Supnik's Simulator? I have been trying some things, and
> > when it gives me the '=' prompt, anything i type makes the program freeze.
> >
> > I have been following these instructions, the problem comes up when I
> > get the '=' prompt. I type: "tmrk", it just freezes.
>
> The 6th Ed installation instructions say: The tape contains 12100 512-byte
> records followed by a single file mark. Have you made the tape image for
> Bob Supnik's emulator to match this, and what configuration file are you
> giving to the emulator?
But the tape image also contains bootstraps for two kinds of tape drives
in the first 100 blocks. Followed by 3 x 4000-block RK05 images. More
than this I don't remember offhand, but I do have the "Setting up Unix"
document on a bookshelf somewhere in another office.
> P.S You can use the RK05 disk image in
> Distributions/research/Dennis_v6/v6root.gz, or the RL02 image in
> Bootable_Images/v6_rl02_unknown.gz,
> unless you really do want to install V6 from tape.
The number of people in the world who have actually installed V6 from
tape is probably pretty small. But I am one of them, for better or worse.
carl
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> The number of people in the world who have actually installed V6 from
> tape is probably pretty small. But I am one of them, for better or worse.
Me too :-) But I've long since forgotten the details...
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The documentation that Warren gave me describes the memory management
scheme. It says that when the machine is first started, the memory
management unit is disabled -- anyone know how to enable it, and where the
segmentation registers are (I'm assuming they are in the 0160000-0177777
range somewhere)?
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All,
Here is how to install 6th Edition from the tape image v6.tape.gz
in Distributions/research/Ken_Wellsch_v6, onto Bob Supnik's emulator 2.3d:
I found makesimtape.c in Trees/2.11BSD/usr/src/sys/pdpstand in the
PUPS Archive.
Warren
/usr/local/src/Sim_2.3d: ls -l
total 14822
-rwx------ 1 wkt wheel 6018 Jan 22 11:18 makesimtape
-rwx------ 1 wkt wheel 117728 Jan 11 14:02 pdp
-rw------- 1 wkt wheel 42 Jan 22 11:27 v6
-r-------- 1 wkt wheel 6195200 Jan 22 11:20 v6.tape
-r-------- 1 wkt wheel 2494464 Jan 15 14:14 v6root
-rw------- 1 wkt wheel 14 Jan 22 11:23 z
/usr/local/src/Sim_2.3d: cat z # Input to makesimtape
v6.tape 1
* 1
/usr/local/src/Sim_2.3d: ./makesimtape -i z -o v6tape
v6.tape: block 0, file 0
# Output is file v6tape, not shown
/usr/local/src/Sim_2.3d: cat v6 # Supnik sim config file
set cpu 18b
att rk0 v6root
att tm0 v6tape
/usr/local/src/Sim_2.3d: ./pdp v6 # Run simulator
PDP-11 simulator V2.3d
sim> id 10000-10012 # Toggle in boot code
10000: 012700 # as per V6 install
10002: 172526 # instructions
10004: 010040
10006: 012740
10010: 060003
10012: 000777
sim> g 10000 # Run above boot code
# After a while, enter ctrl-E
Simulation stopped, PC: 010012 (BR 10012)
sim> g 0 # Restart CPU at location 0
=tmrk
disk offset # Follow instructions as per
0 # V6 install notes
tape offset
100
count
1
=tmrk
disk offset
1
tape offset
101
count
3999
= # Enter ctrl-E
Simulation stopped, PC: 137274 (TSTB @#177560)
sim> b rk # Boot RK device 0
@rkunix # Choose correct kernel image
login: root
# ls -l
total 244
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin 1104 May 14 00:47 bin
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin 1824 Aug 14 22:04 dev
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin 496 Oct 10 12:29 etc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root 29074 Oct 10 12:28 hpunix
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin 464 May 13 23:35 lib
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin 32 May 13 20:01 mnt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root 28836 Oct 10 12:22 rkunix
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root 29020 Oct 10 12:25 rpunix
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin 272 Jul 18 09:19 tmp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 28684 Jul 18 09:18 unix
drwxrwxr-x 14 bin 224 May 13 20:16 usr
# sync
# # Enter ctrl-E again
Simulation stopped, PC: 016022 (SOB R4,15746)
sim> q
Goodbye
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Erin W. Corliss wrote:
> The documentation that Warren gave me describes the memory management
> scheme. It says that when the machine is first started, the memory
> management unit is disabled -- anyone know how to enable it, and where the
> segmentation registers are (I'm assuming they are in the 0160000-0177777
> range somewhere)?
I'll check my PDP-11 manuals when I get home; if I have a spare one I'll
send it to you. What was the model again? An 11/70 or something?
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Can anyone point me to instructions on getting the tape in: Ken_Wellsch_v6
up and running on Supnik's Simulator? I have been trying some things, and
when it gives me the '=' prompt, anything i type makes the program freeze.
Any help would be appreciated.
*********************************
Alejandro Gonzalez
HPDRC Research Assistant
NASA Regional Application Center
agonza24(a)cs.fiu.edu
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In article by alejandro gonzalez:
>
> Can anyone point me to instructions on getting the tape in: Ken_Wellsch_v6
> up and running on Supnik's Simulator? I have been trying some things, and
> when it gives me the '=' prompt, anything i type makes the program freeze.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
Have a look at the 6th Edition installation instructions at:
http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/Setup/v6_setup.html
Cheers,
Warren
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Subject: Early UNIX dates
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All,
After some reading though papers and books, I've come up with the
following brief timeline of very early UNIX development. I just thought
some of you might find it interesting.
Warren
Early dates of UNIX Development
As accurately as we can tell, anyway! References given where possible.
1969
Unknown: Ken creates `Space Travel'. It was first written on Multics,
then transliterated into Fortran for GECOS, then Ken and
Dennis rewrote Space Travel to run on the PDP-7
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html]
Mid-year: Bell Labs withdraws from the Multics project
[QCU pg 8]
April, May, June: Ken is interested in writing a file system
[QCU pg 8]
Mid-year: Ken brings the file system to life on the PDP-7 in a month
[QCU pg 10]
Unknown: Ken develops the B language
[QCU pg 34],
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html]
1970
Unknown: Peter Neumann coins the term `Unics', which is
subsequently changed to `Unix'
[QCU pg 9]
Unknown: Alternatively, Brian Kernighan suggests the name `Unix'
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html]
Mid-year: The PDP-11/20 is purchased, with no disk drives
[QCU pg 35],
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html]
3 months later: The disks arrive
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html]
Unknown: Ken recodes the Unix kernel and some commands in PDP-11
assembly code
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html]
1971
January-March: PDP-11 version largely rewritten during this period
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/notes.html]
February: PDP-11 Unix beccomes ``operational''
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html]
Unknown: Dennis extends B to be NB
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html]
Spring: roff rewritten in PDP-11 assembler language, starting from
the PDP-7 version that had been transliterated from
McIlroy's BCPL version on Multics, which had in turn been
inspired by J. Saltzer's runoff program on CTSS
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html]
November: First Edition manuals were published
[QCU pg 43]
1972
January: The Labs issues a technical memorandum, written by Ken,
describing the B language on the PDP-11
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/kbman.html]
March: First manual for cc(1)
[QCU pg 48]
March: UNIX is running on at least 5 PDP-11/20s
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/notes.html]
June: DEC starts to ship the PDP-11/45. The Labs purchases one
sonn after this
[http://www.village.org/pdp11/faq.pages/11model.html]
June: Second Edition manuals were published. 10 UNIX installations
[QCU pg 43]
Unknown: Ken adds pipes to the assembly-language version of the kernel
[QCU pg 51],
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html]
1973
January: the `nsys' kernel in the PUPS archive, written in C
[timestamps on the files]
February: Third Edition manuals were published. 16 UNIX installations
[QCU pg 43]
Kernel is still the assembly-language version
[private email from dmr dated 7 Jan 1999]
September: The C version of the kernel is adopted over the
assembly-language version
[private email from dmr dated 18 Jan 1999]
October: First UNIX paper, presented by Ken at the Fourth
ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html]
November: Fourth Edition manuals were published
[QCU pg 43]
1974
June: Fifth Edition manuals were published
[QCU pg 43]
July: Ken's SOSP published in Communications of the ACM, 17, No. 7
[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html]
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>> http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/Images/ken-and-den.jpg
>
> There is a smaller (26K) gif version on the following page:
>
> http://www.lucent.com/museum/1969unix.html
>
> The URL for the gif is:
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> http://www.lucent.com/museum/images/1950/1969rt.gif
The original .jpeg could do with re-saving; with xv you can get it
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I have been following these instructions, the problem comes up when I
get the '=' prompt. I type: "tmrk", it just freezes.
Thanks for the help,
Alex
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NASA Regional Application Center
agonza24(a)cs.fiu.edu
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Warren Toomey wrote:
> In article by alejandro gonzalez:
> >
> > Can anyone point me to instructions on getting the tape in: Ken_Wellsch_v6
> > up and running on Supnik's Simulator? I have been trying some things, and
> > when it gives me the '=' prompt, anything i type makes the program freeze.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Have a look at the 6th Edition installation instructions at:
>
> http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/Setup/v6_setup.html
>
> Cheers,
> Warren
>
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In article by alejandro gonzalez:
>
> Can anyone point me to instructions on getting the tape in: Ken_Wellsch_v6
> up and running on Supnik's Simulator? I have been trying some things, and
> when it gives me the '=' prompt, anything i type makes the program freeze.
>
> I have been following these instructions, the problem comes up when I
> get the '=' prompt. I type: "tmrk", it just freezes.
The 6th Ed installation instructions say: The tape contains 12100 512-byte
records followed by a single file mark. Have you made the tape image for
Bob Supnik's emulator to match this, and what configuration file are you
giving to the emulator?
Thanks,
Warren
P.S You can use the RK05 disk image in
Distributions/research/Dennis_v6/v6root.gz, or the RL02 image in
Bootable_Images/v6_rl02_unknown.gz,
unless you really do want to install V6 from tape.
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alejandro gonzalez <agonza24(a)cs.fiu.edu> writes:
> I have been following these instructions, the problem comes up when
> I get the '=' prompt. I type: "tmrk", it just freezes.
You're following the wrong instructions. :-) Or, at least, you're
taking them too literally. You're trying to use the tape the way it
would be done on a real machine, but it's much easier to just split it
into disk images under the host UNIX. Looking in my V6 directory,
I've got a text file containing something that I believe Warren wrote,
in a text file accompanying the tape image:
"This is a copy of the Sixth Edition distribution tape which was sent
to me by Ken Wellsch. The file v6.tape.gz is the tape image, with the
first 100 512-byte tape blocks containing tape bootstrap stuff. Blocks
100 - 4099 are the RK05 root image, blocks 4100 - 8099 are the /usr
RK05 image, and the blocks 8100 - 12099 are the /doc RK05 image."
So what I did with that tape, for Bob Supnik's PDP-11 simulator, was
to run these commands under the host UNIX:
% gunzip v6.tape.gz
% dd if=v6.tape of=v6.root.rk05 count=4000 skip=100
% dd if=v6.tape of=v6.usr.rk05 count=4000 skip=4100
% dd if=v6.tape of=v6.doc.rk05 count=4000 skip=8100
Then, I made a script file for the simulator:
% cat > v6.script
attach rk0 V6.root.rk05
attach rk1 V6.usr.rk05
attach rk2 V6.doc.rk05
boot rk0
^d
%
...and finally, I run the resulting system, thus:
% pdp11 v6.script
PDP-11 simulator V2.3
@unix
login:
I may have had to modify something in the actual UNIX V6 system to
mount rk1 and rk2 properly -- I don't recall. You'll figure it out.
Anyway, the system runs like a charm, and I've successfully rebuilt
the kernel from sources on it. Fun!
Good luck!
-tih
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Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> writes:
> Patrick Regan, from Bell Labs, has sent in a 2M jpg of
> Ken and Dennis at the console of a PDP-11/20, around 1970.
That's neat! I've got a very good print of it here (that huge Epson
color inkjet printer we bought at work really does a good job with the
expensive "photo quality" paper in it), and will frame it and hang it
on the wall of my basement machine room in my home. However (and my
ignorance is showing now, I know) who is whom in the picture?
-tih
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Hi,
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> From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih(a)Hamartun.Priv.NO>
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> on the wall of my basement machine room in my home. However (and my
> ignorance is showing now, I know) who is whom in the picture?
Dennis is the one with the glasses & beart ... ;-))
cheers,
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Thanks a lot. It works now.
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Alejandro Gonzalez
HPDRC Research Assistant
NASA Regional Application Center
agonza24(a)cs.fiu.edu
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On 21 Jan 1999, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> alejandro gonzalez <agonza24(a)cs.fiu.edu> writes:
>
> > I have been following these instructions, the problem comes up when
> > I get the '=' prompt. I type: "tmrk", it just freezes.
>
> You're following the wrong instructions. :-) Or, at least, you're
> taking them too literally. You're trying to use the tape the way it
> would be done on a real machine, but it's much easier to just split it
> into disk images under the host UNIX. Looking in my V6 directory,
> I've got a text file containing something that I believe Warren wrote,
> in a text file accompanying the tape image:
>
> "This is a copy of the Sixth Edition distribution tape which was sent
> to me by Ken Wellsch. The file v6.tape.gz is the tape image, with the
> first 100 512-byte tape blocks containing tape bootstrap stuff. Blocks
> 100 - 4099 are the RK05 root image, blocks 4100 - 8099 are the /usr
> RK05 image, and the blocks 8100 - 12099 are the /doc RK05 image."
>
> So what I did with that tape, for Bob Supnik's PDP-11 simulator, was
> to run these commands under the host UNIX:
>
> % gunzip v6.tape.gz
> % dd if=v6.tape of=v6.root.rk05 count=4000 skip=100
> % dd if=v6.tape of=v6.usr.rk05 count=4000 skip=4100
> % dd if=v6.tape of=v6.doc.rk05 count=4000 skip=8100
>
> Then, I made a script file for the simulator:
>
> % cat > v6.script
> attach rk0 V6.root.rk05
> attach rk1 V6.usr.rk05
> attach rk2 V6.doc.rk05
> boot rk0
> ^d
> %
>
> ...and finally, I run the resulting system, thus:
>
> % pdp11 v6.script
> PDP-11 simulator V2.3
> @unix
> login:
>
> I may have had to modify something in the actual UNIX V6 system to
> mount rk1 and rk2 properly -- I don't recall. You'll figure it out.
>
> Anyway, the system runs like a charm, and I've successfully rebuilt
> the kernel from sources on it. Fun!
>
> Good luck!
>
> -tih
> --
> Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity. --Niles Crane, "Frasier"
>
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OK, so I was at my ISP the other day and after a talk with the owner I
walked home with a bunch of pieces from a microvax II, which I used to
completely pimp out my PDP-11/73... One of the new pieces is a hard
drive, which allows me to write assembly code with the RSTS/E Macro
Assembler, write them to the hard drive, and boot the system up in
non-RSTSish ways...
I'm new to PDP-11 assembly language, however, and I don't have a really
complete manual... The general purpose registers are all 16 bits.
Addresses stored in these registers can only point to the first 32K words
of memory. My PDP has a 512K words of memory. The only reference I've
seen to this problem was one sentence in one of my manuals that says the
rest of the memory can be addressed through "memory management". When it
says this, does it mean that there is a separate memory management unit
that I have to control to flip between pages or banks of memory, or are
there extended registers in the CPU itself that allow me to do this? I
crashed the machine the other day and I noticed that the monitor listed
some registers that started with M... Could that be what these are for?
(The computer claims to have 22-bit addressing, BTW.)
-- Erin Corliss
Some answers to Warren's queries:
mknod(II) first shows up in the Fourth Edition; the manual entry is dated
8/5/73. (That having been typed in the US, presumably it means 5 Aug 1973.)
getgid(II) shows in the same manual, but with an older date: 3/15/72.
This is also the edition in which the documentation for stat(II) first
admits a group ID as well as a user ID.
Both my hazy memory (made worse by lack of sleep right now) and the clues
in the manual suggest that 3e/4e was the period when the system was rewritten
in C; e.g. 4e is the first to show C interfaces in section II, complete with
structs as well as pure byte-offset descriptions for objects like that filled
in by stat, though the structs are nameless, presumably because there were no
standard header files yet. Evidently the file system upheaval occurred in
the same period.
Reading the description of the 3e file system, I see it has been too long since
I've read it. A summary:
Blocks 0 and 1 are the super-block, consisting of
size of free-storage bitmap
the map itself
size of free-i-node map
the map itself
Block 2 begins the i-list; data blocks follow.
I-nodes 1-40 are reserved for special (device) files,
and don't appear in the map. I-node 41 is the root.
I-nodes have flags, a link count, a userid, a 16-bit
size, creation and modification times, and eight block
pointers. Flag bits inclode `allocated', `large file'
(the pointers are to indirect blocks), read and write
permissions for user and other, set-userid, a single
`executable' flag, a `directory' flag (if clear, regular
file).
BUGS
Two blocks are not enough to handle the i- and free-
storage maps for an RP02 disk pack, which contains
around 10 million words.
The 4e file system is more or less that in the more-familiar V6 system:
Block 0 reserved for boot block
Block 1 is the super-block: file-system and i-list sizes,
caches of free block and i-node numbers. The free-block
list is now the familiar chain of blocks list free block
numbers; the free-inode list is abolished because the
i-nodes all have `allocated' flags anyway.
Block 2 begins the i-list. I-node 1 is the root.
I-nodes differ from 3e in having a group ID,a 24-bit
size, access time instead of creation time; the `directory'
flag becomes a two-bit `file type' flag; group permissions
appear, there are three separate `executable' flags, and
set-group-ID appears.
No BUGS yet, perhaps because the code was new.
Notice how history repeats: 4e replaced the free-block bitmap with
a list, which made it simpler to cope with huge file systems but
harder to allocate blocks in a simpler order; sundry replacement
file systems in the early 1980s (Berkeley FFS, Weinberger's cheap
hacks in V8) restored the bitmap, because it's easier to pick a good
block when you can see all the blocks available, and because by then
computers had enough memory and disks were big enough that a large
bitmap wasn't a burden.
An anecdote may be (barely) relevant here. I remember once in the
late 1980s having a chat with Lee McMahon about group IDs, and how
they didn't seem to have done quite what people wanted (hence the
multiple-groups-per-process stuff in most current systems, and the
special semantics for the set-group-id flag on directories, and
various other features that have seemed to me never to quite hit
the mark). Lee told me that when Ken first put group IDs into the
system, he asked Ken what they were for. Ken allegedly shrugged
and said `I dunno.'
Norman Wilson
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> http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/Images/ken-and-den.jpg
There is a smaller (26K) gif version on the following page:
http://www.lucent.com/museum/1969unix.html
The URL for the gif is:
http://www.lucent.com/museum/images/1950/1969rt.gif
Mike
In article by Eric Fischer:
> Congratulations on getting the nsys kernel running! I have
> a couple of random comments on what you posted to the list:
>
> > Syscalls in `nsys' but not in V5:
> > ---------------------------------
> > 1, &quit, /* 26 = quit */
> > 1, &intr, /* 27 = intr */
> > 1, &cemt, /* 29 = cemt */
> > 1, &ilgins, /* 33 = ilgins */
> > 1, &fpe, /* 40 = fpe */
> >
> > These deliver signals QUIT, INTR, EMT, INS or FPE
> > to the pid in arg0. Any user can send these signals.
>
> I think this is backwards -- these system calls don't deliver
> signals, they trap them. That is, they're the predecessors
> of signal(), not kill().
Eric is quite correct, and I realised this after reading some comments
on the V2 kernel. The nsys kernel also has a sig() system call which
allows a process to trap an arbitrary signal. This is why the syscalls
above were removed: there was a more general system call available.
>
> > Syscalls in V5 but not in `nsys':
> > ---------------------------------
> > 0, &getpid, /* 20 = getpid */
> > 1, &smdate, /* 30 = smdate */
> > 0, &nice, /* 34 = nice */
> > 0, &pipe, /* 42 = pipe */ !!!
> > 4, &profil, /* 44 = prof */
>
> This part seems really weird. Since it has fpe() but not nice() and
> pipe(), that would have to mean it's somewhere intermediate between
> v2 and v3, at least if the details in Doug McIlroy's "Research Unix
> Reader" are all accurate. And I *really* don't understand why there
> would be space reserved in the system call table for nice and pipe
> but no implementations of the functions.
>
> The other weird part is that McIlroy says that smdate() was in v1
> through v3 but disappeared after that. I don't have the v5 kernel
> source at hand right now, so I can't check up on that, but it's
> strange that smdate should be missing here if this is an early v3.
>
> Actually, on further inspection this must be a *late* v3, since it
> has mknod(), getgid(), and setgid(), which aren't supposed to have
> shown up until v4. (No signal(), though, so it's not quite v4.)
> That's still very odd that pipes would be left out, unless this
> version was crunched to run in an especially small memory or something.
>
> And yet, v3 was supposed to have been released in February, 1973, and
> this is earlier than that, so what are any v4 features doing there at
> all? This just gets stranger and stranger...
> eric
I've had some chat with Dennis about this kernel, and how it fitted into
development. The summary is: Ken tried to rewrite the assembly version of
the kernel in B (or NB) in 1972, but gave up because structures didn't
exist. Once B -> NB -> C and got structures, they tried again. Apparently,
the `new' kernel (aka nsys) was developed in parallel with the `old'
assembly kernel during early to mid-1973. Then, Dennis says:
I'm pretty sure that we didn't adopt [the C version of the kernel]
as the standard "production" system until about September 1973.
It is very likely that the real "sys" was still in assembler.
Pipes were probably added first to [the sys] version, given the
evidence in "nsys."
Dennis also says:
During 1972, Ken finally puts pipes into Unix at McIlroy's urging.
which would explain why there is a reserved syscall in `nsys', but no
code as yet.
I can't explain the existence of the mknod(), getgid(), and setgid()
system calls. Norman and Bob Keys, I think one/both of you have got the
old manuals, can you look through them and find out when these syscalls
appeared?
Cheers all,
Warren
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All,
Patrick Regan, from Bell Labs, has sent in a 2M jpg of
Ken and Dennis at the console of a PDP-11/20, around 1970. It's at:
http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/Images/ken-and-den.jpg
Ciao,
Warren
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