Warren Toomey writes: Did anyone else ever try getting the v2/v3 kernel (i.e. the two images on s1-bits, which I was able to determine is an init tape as described in V3/man/man8/bproc.8) running? I remember getting it working for myself in single-user mode, but ran out of space trying to extract s2-bits (presumably the matching /bin-/etc- /lib tape), couldn't figure out how to make or mount a second filesystem (or if it was possible at all), and there didn't seem to be any interest here at the time, and now I can't remember what I did to get as far as I did. I think it's the oldest extant binary distribution the archive has.

Warren Toomey writes: I'm talking about the s1-bits tape, though. It contains two binary kernels (the warm/cold ones described in the manpages), as raw data in the sections that aren't mentioned in the Readme file. (i.e. the first 50176 bytes). I figured this out by analyzing the file and noticing it contained copies of /etc/init, getty, /bin/chmod, date, login, mkdir, sh, tap, and ls, which is similar to the lists of programs mentioned in: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man7/boot.7 http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man8/bproc.8 I worked out that the rest of the structure also matched, though I think the sizes were different.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 06:26:13PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: Thanks Peter. I'll update the git respository soon. Warren

Warren Toomey wrote: Last patch is 447 from June 2012. I can get to the site just fine... pasted the patch below if it helps anyone. I haven't heard anything about him. Haven't worked at the same company since the early 1990's... Bill Received: by 10.68.220.230 with SMTP id pz6mr12885595pbc.3.1339950326173; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni61647pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.Update.UU.SE!news.Update.UU.SE!not-for-mail From: Johnny Billquist &lt;b...(a)softjar.se&gt; Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11,alt.sys.pdp11 Subject: 2BSD patches... Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:25:24 +0200 Organization: Update Computer Club Message-ID: &lt;jrl0dk$et3$1(a)Iltempo.Update.UU.SE&gt; NNTP-Posting-Host: 178-83-31-172.dynamic.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: Iltempo.Update.UU.SE 1339950325 15267 178.83.31.172 (17 Jun 2012 16:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsm...(a)Update.UU.SE NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:25:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000004000801020107010201" --------------000004000801020107010201 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. Here is a set of patches to 2BSD, which fixes a number of problems. Terribly sorry that I don't present it in the same nice format that Steven M. Schultz does, but I'll try an explain what this is briefly. I've named this patch set path #448, as the last known patches to me are #447. Apply this patch set after you brought it up to version 447... Fixes in here: ==== 1. Use of non-DEC MSCP controllers improved. Some parts of 2BSD have been updated to work with (for example) CMD controllers, but not all parts were. This set of patches makes it possible to boot and run with the CDU-720, for example, which did not work before. 2. Boot program now automatically boots unless manual intervention on console. This looks pretty similar to NetBSD on VAX for example, where a countdown is presented at boot time, and the system continues with an automatic boot unless aborted. Previously, 2BSD would not autoboot from cold start because the reboot-flag was not present at power up. 3. Console terminal made 8-bit clean. On a real PDP-11, the boot monitors are 8-bit clean. However, 2BSD previously ran with 7E on the console, and there was no way to avoid this for system output. This patch makes it all 8-bit clean. 4. The libc resolver code used /etc/hosts if no resolved was available, but if one was, it never used the /etc/hosts. This created a peculiar effect, especially at bootup, since the resolver couldn't be contacted before the network was up, but /etc/hosts were not used, since a correct /etc/resolv.conf existed. The order is not possible to select. It will first try using the resolver, but if that fails, it now falls back to trying /etc/hosts 5. At system build time, the newvers.sh tries to figure out various bits and pieces to put into the built file to tell when the kernel was built, where and by who. This parsing could fail in various ways because of how the date command works with time zones. Fixed by changing how it figures out the information and pass it around. 6. The mandoc macros had a Y2K bug, or rather a 2010 bug, in that the Y2K bug fix actually only fixed years 2000-2009, and it broke again in 2010. This patch does a proper fix to the Y2K problem. Also fixed a spelling error. ==== As usual, the code might not be pretty, but I've atleast been running it myself on several machines for close to two years now, and believe these are all workable, and important patches. Download to your machine. At the root of the file system run: $ patch -p0 < patchfile after this, rebuild the kernel and the boot image. Install the new kernel, the new boot, and then rebuild all of userland. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email. This patch set will bring your system up to patch version 448. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: b...(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol *** VERSION.orig Sun Jun 17 17:02:22 2012 --- VERSION Thu Apr 1 14:17:48 2010 *************** *** 1,5 **** ! Current Patch Level: 447 ! Date: December 31, 2008 2.11 BSD ============ --- 1,5 ---- ! Current Patch Level: 448 ! Date: January 5, 2010 2.11 BSD ============ *************** *** 62,88 **** 112 South Lakeview Canyon Road Thousand Oaks CA 91359 sms(a)wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com - - Below is the original VERSION file distributed with 2.10.1BSD - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - NOTE -- - This is the second release of 2.10BSD; most of the changes - are part of the addition of supervisor space networking in - the kernel, although there are other changes. - - To give some idea of the dates involved, distribution of - 2.10BSD by the USENIX Assoc. started in fall of 1987. - Distribution of this source started in January of 1989. - - Keith Bostic - Casey Leedom - Cyrus Rahman - Steven Schultz - Steven M. Schultz - Contel Federal Systems - 31717 La Tienda Drive - Westlake Village CA 91359 - sms(a)wlv.imsd.contel.com Below is the original VERSION file distributed with 2.10.1BSD ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- 62,67 ---- *** usr/src/sys/pdpstand/boot.c.old Wed Aug 19 00:22:03 2009 --- usr/src/sys/pdpstand/boot.c Wed Aug 19 02:46:18 2009 *************** *** 172,178 **** * this is an automatic reboot, otherwise do it the hard way. */ if (checkword != ~bootopts) ! bootopts = RB_SINGLE | RB_ASKNAME; j = -1; do { if (bootopts & RB_ASKNAME) { --- 172,189 ---- * this is an automatic reboot, otherwise do it the hard way. */ if (checkword != ~bootopts) ! bootopts = 0; ! ! printf("Press <CR> to boot, or any other key to abort: "); ! for (i=5; i>=0; i--) { ! printf("\b%d", i); ! j = getchar2(50); ! if (j != -1) { ! if (j != '\n') bootopts = RB_ASKNAME; ! break; ! } ! } ! printf("\n"); j = -1; do { if (bootopts & RB_ASKNAME) { *** usr/src/sys/pdp/cons.c.old Wed Aug 19 00:25:03 2009 --- usr/src/sys/pdp/cons.c Tue Aug 18 18:09:57 2009 *************** *** 164,170 **** if (tp->t_flags & (RAW|LITOUT)) addr->dlxbuf = c&0xff; else ! addr->dlxbuf = c | (partab[c] & 0200); tp->t_state |= TS_BUSY; out: splx(s); --- 164,170 ---- if (tp->t_flags & (RAW|LITOUT)) addr->dlxbuf = c&0xff; else ! addr->dlxbuf = c&0xff; /* | (partab[c] & 0200); /bqt */ tp->t_state |= TS_BUSY; out: splx(s); *** usr/src/lib/libc/net/named/gethnamadr.c.orig Sun Feb 28 03:59:41 2010 --- usr/src/lib/libc/net/named/gethnamadr.c Thu Apr 1 04:25:45 2010 *************** *** 8,13 **** --- 8,20 ---- * may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this * software without specific prior written permission. This software * is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. + * + * 2010-04-01 Johnny Billquist + * + * Changed code so that /etc/hosts are consulted even if named is + * used. This means that if name resolution fails, it will fall back + * to using /etc/hosts. Previously it just failed in this case. (But it + * did consult /etc/hosts if no named.conf existed.) */ #if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint) *************** *** 227,236 **** --- 234,247 ---- if (_res.options & RES_DEBUG) printf("res_search failed\n"); #endif + #ifdef BQT if (errno == ECONNREFUSED) + #endif return (_gethtbyname(name)); + #ifdef BQT else return ((struct hostent *) NULL); + #endif } return (getanswer(&buf, n, 0)); } *************** *** 259,269 **** if (_res.options & RES_DEBUG) printf("res_query failed\n"); #endif if (errno == ECONNREFUSED) hp = _gethtbyaddr(addr, len, type); ! return ((struct hostent *) NULL); ! } ! hp = getanswer(&buf, n, 1); if (hp == NULL) return ((struct hostent *) NULL); hp->h_addrtype = type; --- 270,285 ---- if (_res.options & RES_DEBUG) printf("res_query failed\n"); #endif + #ifdef BQT if (errno == ECONNREFUSED) + #endif hp = _gethtbyaddr(addr, len, type); ! #ifdef BQT ! else ! return ((struct hostent *) NULL); ! #endif ! } else ! hp = getanswer(&buf, n, 1); if (hp == NULL) return ((struct hostent *) NULL); hp->h_addrtype = type; *** usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh.old Tue Aug 18 17:50:09 2009 --- usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh Tue Aug 18 17:32:57 2009 *************** *** 8,17 **** # if [ ! -r version ]; then echo 0 > version; fi touch version ! echo `cat version` ${USER-root} `pwd` `date` `hostname` | \ awk ' { ! version = $1 + 1; user = $2; host = $10; dir = $3; \ ! date = $4 " " $5 " " $6 " " $7 " " $8 " " $9; }\ END { printf "char version[] = \"2.11 BSD UNIX #%d: %s\\n", \ --- 8,17 ---- # if [ ! -r version ]; then echo 0 > version; fi touch version ! echo `cat version` ${USER-root} `pwd` `hostname` `date` | \ awk ' { ! version = $1 + 1; user = $2; host = $4; dir = $3; \ ! date = $5 " " $6 " " $7 " " $8 " " $9 " " $10 " " $11; }\ END { printf "char version[] = \"2.11 BSD UNIX #%d: %s\\n", \ *** usr/src/sys/pdpstand/prf.c.old Tue Aug 18 15:45:40 2009 --- usr/src/sys/pdpstand/prf.c Wed Aug 19 02:45:36 2009 *************** *** 9,14 **** --- 9,15 ---- #include "../machine/cons.h" #define KLADDR ((struct dldevice *)0177560) + #define LKS ((int *)0177546) #define CTRL(x) ('x' & 037) *************** *** 116,121 **** --- 117,146 ---- KLADDR->dlrcsr = DL_RE; while ((KLADDR->dlrcsr & DL_RDONE) == 0) continue; + c = KLADDR->dlrbuf & 0177; + if (c=='\r') + c = '\n'; + return(c); + } + + getchar2(t) + int t; + { + register c; + int clks, olks; + + KLADDR->dlrcsr = DL_RE; + *LKS = 0; + clks = 0x80; + while ((KLADDR->dlrcsr & DL_RDONE) == 0) { + olks = clks; + clks = *LKS; + if (~olks & clks & 0x80) { + *LKS = 0; + if ((--t) == 0) return (-1); + } + continue; + } c = KLADDR->dlrbuf & 0177; if (c=='\r') c = '\n'; *** usr/src/sys/conf/boot/raboot.s.old Mon Aug 17 21:41:34 2009 --- usr/src/sys/conf/boot/raboot.s Mon Aug 17 22:44:12 2009 *************** *** 1,5 **** --- 1,9 ---- /* * SCCS id @(#)raboot.s 2.0 (2.11BSD) 4/13/91 + * + * Code corrected as per the other primitive mscp drivers + * to handles other mscp controllers than DECs. + * /bqt - 20090817 */ #include "localopts.h" *************** *** 59,65 **** MSCPSIZE = 64. / One MSCP command packet is 64bytes long (need 2) ! RASEMAP = 140000 / RA controller owner semaphore RAERR = 100000 / error bit RASTEP1 = 04000 / step1 has started --- 63,69 ---- MSCPSIZE = 64. / One MSCP command packet is 64bytes long (need 2) ! RASEMAP = 100000 / RA controller owner semaphore RAERR = 100000 / error bit RASTEP1 = 04000 / step1 has started *************** *** 153,170 **** mov $RASEMAP,*$ra+RARSPH / set mscp semaphores mov $RASEMAP,*$ra+RACMDH mov *_bootcsr,r0 / tap controllers shoulder ! mov $ra+RACMDI,r0 1: tst (r0) ! beq 1b / Wait till command read ! clr (r0)+ / Tell controller we saw it, ok. 2: tst (r0) ! beq 2b / Wait till response written clr (r0) / Tell controller we got it rts pc ! icons: RAERR ra+RARING 0 RAGO --- 157,176 ---- mov $RASEMAP,*$ra+RARSPH / set mscp semaphores mov $RASEMAP,*$ra+RACMDH mov *_bootcsr,r0 / tap controllers shoulder ! mov $ra+RACMDH,r0 1: tst (r0) ! bmi 1b / Wait till command read ! mov $ra+RARSPH,r0 2: tst (r0) ! bmi 2b / Wait till response written ! mov $ra+RACMDI,r0 ! clr (r0)+ / Tell controller we saw it, ok. clr (r0) / Tell controller we got it rts pc ! icons: RAERR + 033 ra+RARING 0 RAGO *** usr/src/share/tmac/tmac.an.new.old Wed Aug 12 09:43:23 2009 --- usr/src/share/tmac/tmac.an.new Sun Aug 22 03:30:46 2010 *************** *** 20,28 **** .if "\nm"10" .ds ]m November .if "\nm"11" .ds ]m December ' # set the date ! .nr )y \n(yr-100 ! .ie \n(yr<100 .ds ]Y \n(yr ! .el .ds ]Y 0\n()y ' .nr )Y \n(yr+1900 .if n \{.nr m \nm+1 --- 20,28 ---- .if "\nm"10" .ds ]m November .if "\nm"11" .ds ]m December ' # set the date ! .nr )y \n(yr%100 ! .ie \n()y<10 .ds ]Y 0\n()y ! .el .ds ]Y \n()y ' .nr )Y \n(yr+1900 .if n \{.nr m \nm+1 *************** *** 53,59 **** .de UC .if t \{\ . ds ]W 3rd Berkeley Distribution ! . if "\\$1"2" .ds ]W 2rd Berkeley Distribution . if "\\$1"3" .ds ]W 3rd Berkeley Distribution . if "\\$1"4" .ds ]W 4th Berkeley Distribution . if "\\$1"5" .ds ]W 4.2 Berkeley Distribution --- 53,59 ---- .de UC .if t \{\ . ds ]W 3rd Berkeley Distribution ! . if "\\$1"2" .ds ]W 2nd Berkeley Distribution . if "\\$1"3" .ds ]W 3rd Berkeley Distribution . if "\\$1"4" .ds ]W 4th Berkeley Distribution . if "\\$1"5" .ds ]W 4.2 Berkeley Distribution -- Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now! pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/

William Pechter &lt;pechter(a)gmail.com&gt; writes: Oops, I just posted the same patch again, since I only saw this and didn't see that the one you had actually posted was #448. Sorry for the wasted space.

Steven's been setting his firewall rather aggressively lately, it seems. I contacted him about it last year and he happily allowed my IP. If you don't have his address handy, you're welcome to contact me off-list.. regards, jake

John Cowan &lt;cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org&gt; writes: That's not an official patch. It's a collection of improvements by Johnny Billquist. I'm running with a couple of them on my 2.11BSD installations, but disagree with a couple of the others (I don't want the automatic boot, and I do console byte length and parity slightly differently) -- and I have a few mods of my own as well, of course. It's great that Johnny published his changes, but they should really be stored as six suggested improvements, and not in a way that makes them look as if they're yet another patch kit from Steven. -tih -- Elections cannot be allowed to change anything. --Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble