[TUHS] Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick

[Ron Natalie]

The JHU kernel was Version 6 (Research).   All the development was done 
by the Undergraduate Computer Society at Johns Hopkins notably:  Mike 
Muuss, Robert Jesse, me, Robert Miles, and a few others.   Mike went to 
BRL around the summer of 1979.   Any changes after that were done by BRL 
(federal) employees).   So once you have the rights for V6 there’s 
nothing really additional.   We did add the V7 file system as a switch 
but I think that wasn’t done with V7 code.




------ Original Message ------
>From "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent at gmail.com>
To "Ron Natalie" <ron at ronnatalie.com>
Cc "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Date 6/10/2025 2:09:04 PM
Subject Re: Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick

>It's one of the hidden gems of the PDP-11 world.  I'm not clear on its 
>legal status so I don't know if what's there can be redistributed, but 
>it's an extremely mature PDP-11 OS.
>
>-Henry
>
>On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 13:57, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>>By the way.   I’d like to thank you for mentioning the brl.pdp11 
>>distribution below.    I had despaired that I was never going to find 
>>a copy of the kernel that I cut my teeth on developing.    I was able 
>>to download the set from Kirk yesterday and it is destined to replace 
>>the 2.8 BSD that I’m using oin my PiDP-11/70.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>------ Original Message ------
>>From "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent at gmail.com>
>>To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
>>Date 6/9/2025 4:33:10 PM
>>Subject [TUHS] MACRO-11
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Do sources exist for a MACRO-11 assembler for UNIX?  The only package 
>>>I have found is written in MACRO-11 and relies on a provided binary 
>>>to regenerate itself; it's on the brl.pdp11 archive on the CSRG DVD.
>>>
>>>-Henry
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