To: Subject:, Re:, The, dsw, man, page, wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au , pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au CC: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:08:44 -0400 From: dmr To: Subject:, Re:, The, dsw, man, page, wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au, pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The A-news archive "man page" article that Fischer retrieved from Usenet of 1981, describing the original dsw, is authentic so far as I can remember. As the article suggests, the displayed man page is a construction, and didn't exist as such, but it indeed described what the ancestral program did. By a year or so later, as documented in the First Edition manual, the behavior and the name were already referred to as "ancient." My, how time passes. Dennis Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA42243 for pups-liszt; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:16:58 +1000 (EST) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA42231; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:16:40 +1000 (EST) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id LAA30941; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:53:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA31089; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:47:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko(a)yedi.iaf.nl> Message-Id: <199908270947.LAA31089(a)yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PUPS Users Mailing List), quasijarus(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Quasijarus BSD Users Mailing List) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:47:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko(a)freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk [this was mistakenly sent to pupswork yesterday. sorry...] Hi there, I've been trying to get 4.3BSD to run on my newly acquired MicroVAXII. I followed the Ultrix route described in the docs in the pups tree. I get as far as: 2..1..0.. loading boot Boot : /vmunix 327184+102656+130352 start 0x23a8 4.3 BSD Quasijarus UNIX #0: Fri Dec 25 14:22:17 EST 1998 msokolov@polygon:/usr/src/sys/GENERIC real mem = 16773120 SYSPTSIZE limits number of buffers to 112 avail mem = 14949376 using 112 buffers containing 917504 bytes of memory MicroVAX-II tmscp0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774, ipl 15 tms0 at tmscp0 slave 0 uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770, ipl 14 uda0: version 5 model 13 uda0: DMA burst size set to 4 ra0 at uda0 slave 0: MICROP , size = 1303998 sectors ra1 at uda0 slave 1trap type 6, code = 2, pc = 80031b1c panic: Arithmetic fault syncing disks... done Exactly the same thing happens when I use 4.3reno instead of the Quasijarus kit. Any ideas? Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org