[TUHS] Fwd: Amdahl UTS Source Code

[Warren Toomey via TUHS]

All, I received this e-mail from Andrew Gadsby:

   Hello Warren

   In the mid 1980s I was a Amdahl UTS sysadmin so I was amazed when I
   found the UTS system at
   https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/IBM/370/

   I booted it up and got it running, which was great fun. Anyway, as I
   explored this release I realised that it is complete and includes all
   of the utility and kernel source code -is also builds within the booted
   system. This was a complete surprise to me and bought back many
   memories of those early days.

   I have extracted the source code and am working on some notes on using
   this beast. Would you be interested in adding this material to the
   site? If so I’ll pull my notes and the code together over the next few
   days and send you a link so you can take a look.

Andrew has some concerns about the copyright on the modifications. He adds:

  The more I look at this the more it looks like a V7 research Unix, as
  per your existing PDP11 source code but with modifications to make it
  run on the 370 - not complete as for example the sys/sched() code is
  empty so there’s no paging or swapping. Some of the documentation is
  by the original Unix team - e.g doc/out/iosys by Dennis Ritchie in 1981.

  I also think “Pugs” may have been doing something on it as well,
  as there’s an old mail entry for him from c. 1980. If he’s on your
  mailing list maybe he can give some input?  I’ve still not found
  any copyright notices.

  Does any of this help with copyright concerns?

  I will get you a fuller set of files to you  when I’ve figured out
  more about the kernel rebuild and disk formatting process. That’ll
  help me get a starter guide written - the included 3270 driver is
  a pain but I’m beating it into submission- who needs a backslash
  character anyway!

I thnk Tom Lyons ("Pugs") is on the list, so if Tom and/or others could
provide any insights that would be wonderful :-)

Thanks, Warren