Bunch of Unix tapes rescued

Markus Leypold leypold at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Fri Jun 16 18:04:53 AEST 2000



WOW. Great. Super !! :-)


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 > Delivered-To: leypold at lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
 > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:06:31 -0400
 > From: Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA at trailing-edge.com>
 > Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
 > 
 > On an Expedition to NJ Tuesday, I rescued about 3/4 of a ton of magtapes.
 > Some of these will probably be interesting for the PUPS archive.  In particular,
 > I'm reading through seven of 'em tonight.  If someone could explain to
 > me how "Unix System V Release 2.0" and "Unix System III" work into the
 > grand scheme of AT&T Unices already in the PUPS archive, and how 2.9.1 BSD
 > might be different from (or the same as) the 2.9 BSD stuff already in the
 > archive, I'd forever appreciate it :-).
 > 
 > The first two tapes are AT&T Unix System V tapes for VAXen:
 > 
 > Tape 1:
 > 
 > 	AT&T 60462
 > Unix System V Release 2.0
 > VAX Version 2 for 11/780 and 11/750
 > TPName: Root and Selectables
 > 
 > 	AT&T 60462
 > Dwg: j1p077c-3  List:1M1
 > TP No: OTP-1P550-01  IS: 2.0V2
 > Order: VX501404 Spec:000 Item:1
 > BPI 1600 Max Blksize: 05120  Files:0009
 > Date:01/13/86  Opr: jlc Drv: tu-2
 > 
 > 
 > Tape 2:
 > 	AT&T 60463
 > Unix System V Release 2.0
 > VAX Version 2 for 11/780 and 11/750
 > TPName: USR File System
 > 
 > 	AT&T 60463
 > Dwg: j1p077c-3  List:2m2
 > TP No: OTP-1P550-02  IS: 2.0V2
 > Order: UX501404 Spec:000 Item:1
 > BPI 1600 Max Blksize: 05120  Files:0009
 > Date:01/13/86  Opr: jlc Drv: tu-0
 > 
 > 
 > The third tape is UNIX System III from AT&T:
 > 
 > Tape 3:
 > 	UNIX* System III
 >      PDP 11/70,45 - 800 BPI
 >         Release Tape #1
 > *UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories
 > 
 > 	Restricted Rights
 > Use Duplication or Disclosure is Subject
 > To Restrictions Stated in your contract with
 > American Telephone & Telegraph
 > 
 > The Fourth and Fifth tape are either 2.9BSD or 2.9.1BSD (I
 > can't tell the difference until I compare these tapes with the
 > files already in the PUPS archives):
 > 
 > Tape 4:
 > 
 > 	Berkeley UNIX (Rev. 2.9.1)  2.9BSD
 > 	Sun Nov 20 14:55:50 PST 1983
 > 	800 BPI HT/TM boot tape.  For tar files
 > 	skip the first 7 tape files with
 > 	``mt -t /dev/nrmt0 fsf 7''
 > 	Reel 1 of 2   Tape #
 > 
 > Tape 5:
 > 	Berkeley UNIX (Rev. 2.9.1)  2.9BSD
 > 	Sun Nov 20 14:55:50 PST 1983
 > 	800 BPI		Tar of /usr/src
 > 	Reel 2 of 2
 > 
 > And Tapes 6 and 7 seem to be a complete distribution set of 4.2BSD,
 > they ought to form a good replacement for the supposedly damaged and
 > incomplete set in /Distributions/4bsd/4.2BSD.
 > 
 > Tape 6:
 > 	4.2bsd VAX UNIX System 8/23/83
 > 	6 files on tape:
 > 	 1 (boot stuff) 2 (mini root)
 > 	 3 ((root dump) 4 (/sys) 5 (/usr)
 > 	 6 (/usr/lib/vfont)
 > 	last three are tar; 1600 bpi
 > 
 > Tape 7:
 > 	4.2bsd VAX UNIX System 8/23/83
 > 	tape 2: 3 files on tape
 > 	 1 (/usr/src)
 > 	 2 (user contributed software)
 > 	 3 (/usr/ingres)
 > 	all files are tar; 1600 bpi
 > 
 > Like I said, there's about 3/4 of a ton of tapes in total, I'm sure there
 > are some other PUPS-related goodies deeper in the pile...
 > 
 > -- 
 >  Tim Shoppa                        Email: shoppa at trailing-edge.com
 >  Trailing Edge Technology          WWW:   http://www.trailing-edge.com/
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 > 
 > 

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