[TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks

[Adam Thornton]

I usually think of him and Theodore Ts'o in the same context (which is to
say, tsx-11/MIT), so perhaps he would know?  LinkedIn claims he's at Intel
somewhere in the Bay area, but his employment there dates (LinkedIn claims)
to 2003...so, possible, or maybe he just dropped off the radar sometime
between then and now.

Adam

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:36 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> I looked, don't have it.  There was a red 4 CD set, I want to say it
> was ImageMagick but that's the graphics program.  It was a 4 cd set
> of at least one Linux distro and a boat load of open source stuff.
>
> It predated redhat so it was huge back in the day, way better to
> buy that than spend a bizillion days on ftp over a modem.
>
> H.J. Lu's stuff was on it.
>
> Does anyone know where he is?  I can go look if that helps.
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 06:59:14PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > I have to go look but I think I might have this on CD.  I used to have
> > a drawer full of install cds that went back to the 1990's.  If I don't
> > follow up, they are gone.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 06:40:45PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> > > > The files used to be on tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/GCC in rootdisk
> and
> > > > basedisk subdirectories.
> > >
> > > There's a copy of the tsx-11 archives in the Internet Archive here,
> > > along with 8 other archival CDs from Pacific HiTech, but it doesn't
> > > seem to include the directories you want:
> > >
> > >   https://archive.org/details/OfficialRedHatCommercialLiNUXV3.0.3
> > >
> > > The same item also has a copy of the old Sunsite archive on 4 CD
> images.
> > > Was there a mirror of H.J. Lu's early stuff in sunsite?
> > >
> > > Searching for "tsx-11" in the search box at the Internet Archive
> > > turns up half a dozen (typically CDROM .ISO) images of various copies
> > > of the tsx-11 archives.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the Internet Archive never directly crawled
> tsx-11.mit.edu,
> > > seemingly because it was never accessible via http?
> > >
> > >     John
> > >
> >
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