[TUHS] Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick

Warren Toomey via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Wed Jun 11 12:55:25 AEST 2025


Sure!
Thanks, Warren 

On 11 June 2025 10:22:28 am AEST, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
>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
>>>
>>>

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