[TUHS] forgotten versions
Paul Ruizendaal
pnr at planet.nl
Sun Jun 19 05:55:11 AEST 2022
For those interested in a quick feel for V8 and early SysV, I recommend the excellent unix50 stuff:
SSH to unix50: "ssh unix50 at unix50.org”
Password is “unix50”
You end up in a menu with:
SDF Public Access UNIX System presents ...
/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/
/~/~ H Y S T E R I C A L ~ U N I X ~ S Y S T E M S ~/~/
/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/~/
[a] UNICS (Version Zero) PDP-7 Summer 1969
[b] First Edition UNIX PDP-11/20 November 1971
[c] Fifth Edition UNIX PDP-11/40 June 1974
[d] Sixth Edition UNIX PDP-11/45 May 1975
[e] Seventh Edition UNIX PDP-11/70 January 1979
[f] Research UNIX 8 VAX-11/750 1984
[g] AT&T UNIX System III PDP-11/70 Fall 1982
[h] AT&T UNIX System V PDP-11/70 1983
[i] AT&T UNIX System V 3b2/400 1984
[j] 4.3 BSD MicroVAX June 1986
[k] 2.11 BSD PDP-11/70 January 1992
[w] What's running now?
[q] QUIT (and run away in fear!)
User contributed tutorials are at https://sdf.org/?tutorials/unix50th
Want persistent images? networking? more ttys? Join https://sdf.org
Don’t to exit from a run, press Ctrl-E to return to sims, type 'exit', type ‘q'
I just tried V8 and it still works, although the boot log suggests that an image reset may be in order.
Many, many thanks to whoever is maintaining this!
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