Re: [9fans] Mt. Xinu

[plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:46:19PM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> 
> On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:40 PM, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> 
> >mt xinu 4.3bvd (sic).
> 
> Whatever was the magic of the Mt. Xinu releases?  I've worked on  
> generic 4.2 as well as Ultrix 1.*, but nobody was ever able to  
> explain the difference ...

AFAICT, it's just BSD with NFS bolted on.  We're still running it on a
MicroVAX, though we're now down to only one working Eagle:

Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: 4.3 BSD + NFS UNIX #19: Thu Oct  6 14:48:43 EST
+2005
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: real mem  = 8355840
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: avail mem = 7001088
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: using 255 buffers containing 522240 bytes of
+memory
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: uba0 at tr0
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 17
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: ra0 at uda0 slave 0
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: ra0: raeagle
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: dhu0 at uba0 csr 160020 vec 300, ipl 17
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: dhu1 at uba0 csr 160040 vec 310, ipl 17
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 770, ipl 17
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: qe0: hardware address 08:00:2b:0d:44:a7
Feb 14 13:05:33 merlin vmunix: root fstype ufs
Feb 14 13:05:37 merlin savecore: reboot after panic: Segmentation fault

Old CS profs. never die-- they just make you maintain their old stuff
forever. :)

ObPlan9:  someone should port Plan 9 to the MicroVAX!