12 Oct
2017
12 Oct
'17
7:11 p.m.
Hello!
I was thinking of Linux, since it and FreeBSD, and even NetBSD, are
next door neighbors of a sort. But at least it is a start. Thank you!
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gregg,
I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but as mentioned in the
note, I tested the instructions on Mac OS X Mavericks through MacOS High
Sierra as well as multiple flavors of FreeBSD 10-11. Your comment sparked my
interest in trying it out on Windows (maybe that's the OS non-grata?), so I
tested it there as well. Seems to work, although I found the experience
distasteful in the extreme . The number of tools missing on that OS are mind
boggling... but I did get it working. In full disclosure, I couldn't bring
myself to run it on metal. I just ran the Windows 8.1 Enterprise
environment in a VM running on Linux Mint 18.2 (a debian/ubuntu variant).
Just so you know, I have to have a *nix like set of tools on any OS I use,
these days, or I feel like my left arm is missing, so the minimal workable
set for me in this case was Git with unix tools (a version on MinGW, I
think). I used to use Cygwin, but it's so bloated it's sickening and the
installer is unfriendly to say the least (I would be satisfied with a button
that said "reasonable set of unix tools", but the minimal selection is
minimalist, not reasonable). Anyhow, Git with unix tools will get you a bash
shell that has an almost reasonable set of tools. Enough the do the work
required for this note anyway. SimH has binaries for windows to download. I
picked the one that was created 29 days ago, unzipped it, put it on the path
and it just worked. Quite a few steps in the prep required minor tweakage
(no vi, no emacs - see what I mean about minimal not being reasonable, but
notepad++ worked ok; no gunzip, but gzip -d < zipfile > unzipped worked,
perl script didn't seem to work right, not sure what that's about - may look
into it later, since I wrote it, but in the meantime I just downloaded the
tap file from the archive and it worked fine)...
Bottom line for windows, download the tap file from the archive, create two
ini files, one for first boot, the other for normal boot and the rest of the
instructions work verbatim.
I haven't bothered with linux, just cuz I somehow didn't, but I gather it
will probably work about as well as on the BSD's.
Is that what you were asking, or something more subtle?
Regards,
Will
On 10/12/17 12:32 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
(If this is seen twice, then that's because Google complained that the
mangle list wasn't accepting messages.)
Will, has this been idea been tested on any of the platforms that the
emulator runs on? (Not going to mention one in particular by name
since it's sore spot around here.)
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just finished creating an updated PDF version of a blog post I did a
> couple of years back, describing how to install and use Unix v7 in SimH.
> It's updated for 2017 and MacOS High Sierra 10.13. I started the update
> because I was wanting to do some research in v7 and thought it would be
> good
> to have a current set of instructions but really because I was interested
> in
> learning a bit about LaTeX and creating prettier, more useful documents.
> The
> notes still work fine as originally written, but I organized things a
> little
> differently and tweaked some of the language. I thought somebody else
> might
> like having a PDF version around so I uploaded the result, call it
> revision
> 1.1, and made it publicly accessible (the blog still needs updating,
> somebody oughta do something about link impermanence, but that's all for
> another day). Feel free to comment or complain. I added a section in
> honor
> of dmr at one commenter's suggestion. Here's the link:
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1_Jn6Hlzym-Zmx1TjR3TENDQTA
>
> Later,
>
> Will
>
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