[TUHS] Uwisc4.3 question...

[lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)]

I was around UWisc when people were working on this.  I could track down
some names.  Last I heard Tad was at Legato as CTO.  Dave Cohrs was
around then, he might know.

This is a fairly interesting chunk of code because when I like through 
it, it looks a lot like the SunOS 4.x VFS layer (I worked at Sun in
the kernel group right after that stuff got done).  A lot of the
kernel folk at Sun were ex-Wisconsin people, back then Wisconsin
was quite the hackers school.  The guy who did the VM system at
Sun, the basis for most modern VM systems, came from Wisconsin.
I watched him do a BSD port to an HP machine in 2 days once.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:53:07AM -0400, Jason Stevens wrote:
> I went ahead and downloaded this [
> http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/thirdparty/UWisc4.3/ ],
> made up some tape images and installed it on SIMH...  And what I found
> is that as far as I can tell there is *NO* information about this
> thing..
> 
> All I can find is that it includes the vfs layer from SunOS and it's
> NFS...  It looks like beta software from the root user being "The Not
> Ready for Prime Time Super User".
> There is also a tadl user, Tad Lebeck which I think is from "Storage
> Confrence"..
> 
> Anyways it seems absent from the UNIX tree, and just about anywhere
> from google's search of usenet, other then a single node running this
> back in the UUCP days..
> 
> So is this a unique build of 4.3, is it it's own thing?  Should it be
> added to the unix tree? Did it get rolled back into RENO?
> It does appear to be dead end, but I haven't combed that much thru it..
> 
> 
> FWIW here is the UUCP entry I found...
> ------
> #N    eedsp
> #S    Vax 11/780; 4.3+NFS Wisconsin Unix
> #O    School of Electrical Engineering
> #C    Deborah J. Jackson
> #E    gt-eedsp!deb
> #T    +1 404 894 3058
> #P    School of EE, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, 30332
> #L    84 23 43 W / 33 46 30 N
> #W    eedsp!deb (Deb Jackson); Wed Jul 19 11:35:13 EDT 1989
> ------
> 
> 
> And for the heck of it, a bootup log..
> ------
> loading ra(0,0)boot
> Boot
> : ra(0,0)vmunix
> 290188+89696+102928 start 0x12f8
> 4.3 BSD UNIX #3: Mon Dec 29 11:54:56 CST 1986
>     tadl at brie:/usr/src/bsd/4.3/sys/GENERIC
> real mem  = 8388608
> SYSPTSIZE limits number of buffers to 134
> avail mem = 7136256
> using 134 buffers containing 524288 bytes of memory
> mcr0 at tr1
> mcr1 at tr2
> uba0 at tr3
> hk0 at uba0 csr 177440 vec 210, ipl 15
> rk0 at hk0 slave 0
> rk1 at hk0 slave 1
> rk2 at hk0 slave 2
> rk3 at hk0 slave 3
> uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 15
> ra0 at uda0 slave 0
> zs0 at uba0 csr 172520 vec 224, ipl 15
> ts0 at zs0 slave 0
> dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 300, ipl 15
> dz1 at uba0 csr 160110 vec 310, ipl 15
> dz2 at uba0 csr 160120 vec 320, ipl 15
> dz3 at uba0 csr 160130 vec 330, ipl 15
> Changing root device to ra0a
> Automatic reboot in progress...
> Sat Mar 21 16:45:41 PST 1987
> /dev/ra0a: 355 files, 5885 used, 1544 free (8 frags, 192 blocks, 0.1% fragmion)
> /dev/rra0g: 12289 files, 65182 used, 180043 free (275 frags, 22471
> blocks,fragmentation)
> /dev/rra0h: 2 files, 9 used, 138575 free (15 frags, 17320 blocks, 0.0% fragtion)
> Sat Mar 21 16:45:49 PST 1987
> /dev/ra0a mounted on /
> /dev/ra0g mounted on /usr
> /dev/ra0h mounted on /mnt
> starting rpc daemons: portmap rpcd.
> starting system logger
> starting local deamons: routed sendmail biod.
> preserving editor files
> clearing /tmp
> standard daemons: update cron.
> starting network daemons: inetd printer.
> Sat Mar 21 16:45:54 PST 1987
> 
> 
> Wisconsin UNIX (myname console)
> 4.3+NFS > V.*
> 
> login: root
> Last login: Sat Mar 21 16:44:51 on console
> 4.3 BSD UNIX #3: Mon Dec 29 11:54:56 CST 1986
> You have mail.
> Don't login as root, use su
> myname#
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