From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (Warren Toomey) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:08:47 +1100 (EST) Subject: Old SunOS Software In-Reply-To: <199903022242.OAA12660@harker.harker.com> from "Robert Harker, 408-295-9432" at "Mar 2, 1999 2:42:27 pm" Message-ID: <199903030008.LAA02692@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> In article by Robert Harker, 408-295-9432: > I just joined the pups-digest mailing list which seemed to be PDP-11 > oriented. Is there a different mailing list for the The Unix Heritage > Society? > > And yes, I do have the original SunOS 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x software > (and maybe 1.x also). As I tell friends, "There is a Sun 100u in the > Smithsonian, but mine is older" > > Thanks in advance > RLH Hi Robert, the name is a legacy thing, feel free to talk about old Suns. If you have the old software, and we can clear things with Sun, then we could get it added into the archive here. There was a German web site which had Sun's assent to put some old SunOS versions up on the web. My email from Robert D. Keys says: Try the http://doener.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/ site, and it is explained there. The guy actually got Sun to OK it, as far as I know, but I have no idea of the exact legalese involved, but memory tells me it was Sun Germany that gave the go-ahead on it. The site may have moved to http://sun3arc.krupp.net, since I was thinking a move was in progress a couple of months back. I think I got to it via a link from www.sunhelp.com or www.sunfreeware.com. Hope this helps, Warren Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id CAA00695 for pups-liszt; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 02:56:48 +1100 (EST) Received: from cc02du.unity.ncsu.edu (cc02du.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.1.174]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA00690 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 02:56:38 +1100 (EST) From: rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu Received: (from rdkeys at localhost) by cc02du.unity.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/UC02Jan97) id KAA19008; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:56:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903031556.KAA19008 at cc02du.unity.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: Old SunOS Software To: wkt at cs.adfa.edu.au Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:56:18 -0500 (EST) Cc: harker at harker.com, pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au In-Reply-To: <199903030008.LAA02692 at henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> from "Warren Toomey" at Mar 3, 99 11:08:47 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24/POP] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk > In article by Robert Harker, 408-295-9432: > > I just joined the pups-digest mailing list which seemed to be PDP-11 > > oriented. Is there a different mailing list for the The Unix Heritage > > Society? > > > > And yes, I do have the original SunOS 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x software > > (and maybe 1.x also). As I tell friends, "There is a Sun 100u in the > > Smithsonian, but mine is older" Gee, I have been looking all over the place for some of those bits for my dinosaur VME crates (sun3/sun4). Most refreshing to know that they have not totally vaporized. > Hi Robert, the name is a legacy thing, feel free to talk about old Suns. > If you have the old software, and we can clear things with Sun, then > we could get it added into the archive here. I heartily agree with Warren on the legacy dinosaurs. Sadly, there is not enough PDP-11ish iron to feed the multitudes. The ancient VAXen and SUNtoyz are still a good way to play old time historical unix. > There was a German web site which had Sun's assent to put some old SunOS > versions up on the web. My email from Robert D. Keys > says: > > Try the http://doener.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/ site, and it is explained > there. The guy actually got Sun to OK it, as far as I know, but > I have no idea of the exact legalese involved, but memory tells > me it was Sun Germany that gave the go-ahead on it. > > The site may have moved to http://sun3arc.krupp.net, since I was > thinking a move was in progress a couple of months back. > I think I got to it via a link from www.sunhelp.com or www.sunfreeware.com. Sun3arc.krupp.net is the current site. Since Sun Germany gave the go to put things up there, I wonder if Warren could look into mirroring that or Sun's allowing us to archive the early 68xxx material, too, especially if members have the bits available in their personal archives. > Hope this helps, > > Warren Just thinking out loud, but so much is going into the dumpster, that we need to be thinking in the UHS about the preservation of other legacy bits, too. Five or ten more years down the road, and all those ancient such machines will be historically important unobtainium, too. Bob Keys