[TUHS] Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick

[Henry Bent]

Do you mean the version with the historic1 and historic2 directories, or
something else?  A lot of that stuff is definitely on shaky legal ground.

-Henry

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 23:10, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> I have an extra special expanded version of Kirk's DVD. Some of which
> I'm not allowed to share, but the brl stuff wasn't in the list....  Do
> you have that stuff Warren, or should I send you a list and ask Kirk
> what we can put up?  He's here in ottawa at BSDcan with me at the
> moment as luck would have it... Or do you have it all already and it's
> been filtered...
>
> Warner
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM Warren Toomey via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
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