[pups] NEXTSTEP etc. [was: Bob's emulator and ultrix] - TUHS

20 Apr 2006

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 On 4/18/06, Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)tuhs.org&gt; wrote:
       [ Please reply to Bill if you can, I
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 ----- Forwarded message from Bill Cunningham &lt;billcu1(a)verizon.net&gt;  
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 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:32:27 -0400
 From: "Bill Cunningham" &lt;billcu1(a)verizon.net&gt;
 Subject: Bob's emulator and ultrix
 To: &lt;wkt(a)tuhs.org&gt;

 I can't get the sim 2.3d to boot ultrix 3.1 or xenix or anyother  
 boot tapes
 in the uhs's archive. I have compiled the pdp11 emulator with  
 gcc-3.4.6. I
 am also interested in the OS Tim Berners-Lee used to write his first
 browser. VMS on a VAX machine I have read. Is there anything like  
 this in
 the archive? A VAX emulator and VMS OS? 
 Tim Berners-Lee developed what became the WWW, server and browser, on
 a NeXT computer running the NeXTstep OS.  There is not a whole lot of
 public knowledge about the internals of the NeXT hardware, which makes
 it difficult to write an emulator for it.

 There is a slowly progressing effort to port NetBSD to NeXT hardware.
 Also, the last few releases of NeXTstep and OpenStep would run either
 on NeXT hardware or selected x86 hardware. 
NEXTSTEP 3.3 & OpenStep run on NeXT's m68k, x86, and on HP/Apollo 700  
series HPPA workstations and on several SUN SPARCstation models.

I own an HP735 that runs NS3.3 quite nicely.

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    Somewhere there is a
 writeup covering the subject of running OpenStep on the VMware virtual
 machine. 
This is a close but not quite the same thing article:
http://iamleeg.blogspot.com/2006/04/so-heres-full-system-networking- 
is.html
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 None of this is VAX, nor is it any other hardware covered by SimH.

     carl
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     carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
                                                  clowenst(a)ucsd.edu

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