5 Oct
2004
5 Oct
'04
9:40 p.m.
"=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jos=E9?= R. Valverde" <jrvalverde(a)cnb.uam.es> wrote:
While working at the Biomedical Research Institute
(Madrid, Spain) I got a
quote from DEC for access to Ultrix source code. As I remember it, it wasn't
that expensive (~1000$ for an academic license) and I mused bout acquiring=
=20
it for some time. My na=EFvete at the time prevented me from ordering it (t=
hat
and the availability of BSD sources).
Ultrix-32 sources can be found on ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG in
/pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32/sources available via anonymous FTP.
MS
6 Oct
6 Oct
10:23 a.m.
New subject: research unix
What has become of the various research unix releases after
7th edition? Have any of these ever been released publically?
Are any of them being archived for historical reasons? Are any
of the versions publically available now?
Tim N.
1:06 p.m.
New subject: research unix
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:23:31PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
What has become of the various research unix releases
after
7th edition? Have any of these ever been released publically?
Are any of them being archived for historical reasons? Are any
of the versions publically available now?
I'm sure that Norman Wilson will answer with a more definitive
answer, but... 2 reasons: there wasn't the concept of a "release"
with 8th, 9th or 10th Edition, they were purely internal
always-in-development systems. The other reason is that, as time
went on, more code from non-AT&T places was incorporated. It will
be difficult to get the clearance from all the copyright holders
to let a snapshot of any of these systems out.
Warren
1:19 p.m.
New subject: research unix
As far as I know, they're still held tightly by whatever part of AT&T
inherited them.
They should be released - for a variety of reasons, amongst them the pulling
of the teeth of various entities intent on muddying the waters with an
outflux of legal venom.
Perhaps someone should set up a petition to that inheriting entity, a la the
Ancient Unix petition, asking them on behalf of all interested parties, that
they release them under a suitable license - perhaps BSD, it's nice and short
and easy to remember - some people out there have very short attention spans
and we don't want them confused.
Any comments?
Wesley Parish
On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:23, Tim Newsham wrote:
What has become of the various research unix releases
after
7th edition? Have any of these ever been released publically?
Are any of them being archived for historical reasons? Are any
of the versions publically available now?
Tim N.
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3:26 p.m.
New subject: TCP/IP implementations
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:40:41PM +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
"=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jos=E9?= R. Valverde"
<jrvalverde(a)cnb.uam.es> wrote:
Ultrix-32 sources can be found on ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG in
/pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32/sources available via anonymous FTP.
Certainly.
But I understood the orioginal post to refer to other Ultrix sources.
Ultrix had a long -and interesting- life after 32V. It was ported to
MIPS machines, and was -AFAIK- the first ever port of UNIX to a 64 bit
machine as the initial Unix for DEC alpha machines. It would later
be abandoned for Mach-based OSF-1 before going to market.
Those Ultrix sources would be a pity to lose. And those were the one
I was referring to in my e-mail (and what I understood the original
poster to mean).
Indeed, OSF/1 aka Tru64 sources and history would also be worthwhile to
preserve for the historical record (as those from IBM, Sun, HP, etc...)
Each had at some point novel and highly advanced technologies for their
time that would be nice to preserve.
j
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9:19 p.m.
New subject: TCP/IP implementations
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:26:21 +0000
"Jose R. Valverde" <jr(a)cnb.uam.es> wrote:
But I understood the orioginal post to refer to other
Ultrix sources.
Ultrix had a long -and interesting- life after 32V. It was ported to
MIPS machines, and was -AFAIK- the first ever port of UNIX to a 64 bit
machine as the initial Unix for DEC alpha machines.
I doubt that Ultrix was ported
to Alpha. DEC was working on OSF/1 before
Alpha machines where available. Initial OSF/1 Versions where MIPS for
DECstations.
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25 Oct
25 Oct
2:17 a.m.
New subject: TCP/IP implementations
Sorry, but I couldn't resist. this has been bothering me for days since my
previous post.
I knew it happened but was writing from memory. I looked to my ancient mails,
looked into the net.. (this started to look like the hunting of the snark) and
then remembered it had been discussed in Usenet. Here is the reference now for
the record. I know the message is long, but I think it is worth reading.
On Wed Oct 6 17:19:53 EST 2004 Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:26:21 +0000
"Jose R. Valverde" <jr at cnb.uam.es> wrote:
There certainly was an Ultrix for Alphas. As I remembered, the first Unix
port for alphas was that of Ultrix, and it was the first OS to run on Alpha
but it was an internal, research development in DEC that never saw the light
of sun. The full thread discussing it can still be found on deja-news:
search for ultrix and alpha butnot FAQ.
The URL:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=3daega%24fld%40le…
the significant text:
But I understood the orioginal post to refer to
other Ultrix sources.
Ultrix had a long -and interesting- life after 32V. It was ported to
MIPS machines, and was -AFAIK- the first ever port of UNIX to a 64 bit
machine as the initial Unix for DEC alpha machines.
I doubt that Ultrix was ported
to Alpha. DEC was working on OSF/1 before
Alpha machines where available. Initial OSF/1 Versions where MIPS for
DECstations. From: Allan E Johannesen (aej(a)mikasa.WPI.EDU)
Subject: Re: Ultrix for Alpha (?)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Date: 1994-12-21 03:28:52 PST
I heard, from what appeared at the time to be a reliable source, that ULTRIX
was the first OS to actually run on an Alpha. That aside, the only OS
controversy was whether OSF/1 would be ported to MIPS. That project was
on-and-off depending on the most recent rumor. The resolution was a firm _NO_.
I recall no hint that ULTRIX would ever be ported to Alpha. It seems clear
enough that ULTRIX is in a maintenance-only mode on the older platforms.
From: kaiser(a)acm.org (kaiser(a)acm.org)
Subject: Re: Ultrix for Alpha (?)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Date: 1994-12-21 00:15:56 PST
In article <AEJ.94Dec20120833(a)mikasa.WPI.EDU>, aej(a)mikasa.WPI.EDU (Allan E
Johannesen) writes:
I heard, from what appeared at the time to be a
reliable source, that ULTRIX
was the first OS to actually run on an Alpha.
True. ULTRIX was ported to Alpha as a research project, and it was the
first OS to run on Alpha. It's not widely known, but not a secret, that
the original big Alpha AD units (they weren't even prototypes, since they
were never intended for sale but only for software development) required
MIPS ULTRIX systems as consoles and boot devices, even when they ran VMS.
None of this, of course, has anything to do with the merits or popularity
of the OSes themselves.
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+33 92.95.62.97, FAX +33 92.95.50.50 From: Farrell Woods (ftw(a)zk3.dec.com)
Subject: Re: Ultrix for Alpha (?)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Date: 1994-12-22 05:39:30 PST
In article <3d8kqb$dfb(a)mrnews.mro.dec.com>, kaiser(a)acm.org writes:
|> True. ULTRIX was ported to Alpha as a research project...
This is correct. The machines were called ADU's, or Alpha Development Units.
They were washing-machine sized boxes with DECstation 5000's sitting atop
as a host/IO processor and front-end. The ADU was in a way a Turbochannel
option on the DECstation; that's how they talked.
Ultrix ran on the ADU's initially, then OSF. Development of OSF for Alpha
proceeded on the ADU for quite a while as the first examples of what would be
known as the DEC 3000 model 500 started trickling in (this was known internally
as the Flamingo.) Support for the ADU was dropped before the first release
of DEC OSF/1 for Alpha shipped, but some intrepid souls within the company
managed to keep them going for themselves through the first two releases
of the OS.
I don't recall talk of officially supporting Ultrix on the Alpha. It only
ever ran on the ADU and was never carried to the production machines.
Alpha/Ultrix was an AD effort.
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