[TUHS] Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick

[Henry Bent]

Well, I suppose I can tar it up and send it to Warren then?

-Henry

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 15:23, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20250610/3b55802f/attachment.htm>