[TUHS] Minor Milestone: Venix 86 "user mode" interpreter

Nigel Williams nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com
Thu Apr 12 13:30:43 AEST 2018


On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> So, I thought I'd share this here. Don't know if anybody else is interested,
> but you never know until you tell people about stuff...

Definitely glad to see efforts to reverse-engineer this software.

For the curious there is a good walk-through of Venix/86 2.1 being
installed here on the MESS emulator:

https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2015/08/14/venturcomm-venix86-on-messmame/

Has anyone established whether all the various Venix releases have
been found and which of the add-on tools have been found? like the
Fortran and RM/COBOL referenced on wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venix



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