Venix (was Re: 2.9BSD: mbuf.h)

[maximum entropy]

>Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:00:45 -0800
>From: "David C. Jenner" <djenner at halcyon.com>
>
>Speaking of the Pro, I have one and have been trying to get Venix
>to run on it.  The rub is, there are two versions: one directly from
>VenturCom (Venix/Pro) and one licensed through DEC (Pro/Venix).

Interesting...I know there's a Venix 1.0 and a Venix 2.0.  I thought
they were both from Venturcom, with 1.0 being for the Pro-350 and 2.0
for the Pro-380.  I never heard of a distinction between Venix/Pro
vs. Pro/Venix.  Then again, I got into this game fairly late...I
bought my used Pro-350 around 1993 for US$100, with Venix 1.0 already
installed (also with original install media and docs).

>Venix/Pro is freely available on the Internet at ftp.update.uu.se,
>but Pro/Venix seems to be a little harder to find.  Pro/Venix is
>much to be preferred because you can reconfigure the kernel (in
>binary) to include different drivers, etc.
>
>I've been able to acquire all the documentation and all (almost) the
>disks for Pro/Venix 2.0.  A couple of the disks are apparently
>unusable or missing in the set I have.

I have the following archives of Venix-related stuff that I snagged
from the net a few years back.  If you think any of them might contain
what you're looking for, let me know and I'll give more detail about
their contents.

-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user         3833 Oct 17  1997 README
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user          532 Oct 17  1997 README.VAX
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user        30819 Oct 17  1997 RX50.notes
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user      2530759 Oct 17  1997 Venix1.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user      2503931 Oct 17  1997 Venix2.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user        15817 Oct 17  1997 cathang.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user       332543 Oct 17  1997 mopimage.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user          443 Oct 17  1997 nbsdrx50.readme
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user       897510 Oct 17  1997 nbsdrx50.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user       155648 Oct 17  1997 pppd
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user       193536 Oct 17  1997 pr0801eng.sys
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user        14153 Oct 17  1997 raind112.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user         6621 Oct 17  1997 rx50.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user        81152 Oct 17  1997 teledisk.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user        61440 Oct 17  1997 venix.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user          116 Oct 17  1997 venix1.readme
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user      1119490 Oct 17  1997 venix1s.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user      1095824 Oct 17  1997 venix1u.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user          424 Oct 17  1997 venix2.readme
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user      1058970 Oct 17  1997 venix2s.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user      1145720 Oct 17  1997 venix2u.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 entropy  user       332362 Oct 17  1997 vnx2u2u5.zip

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