From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: wkt@tuhs.org, pugs@ieee.org
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix, IBM, 370
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:51:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201910310751.x9V7pJ26030054@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAOGWQhAnQvU6ro_sdj1iP0eRk5uWkUKxHebdwFfUsr8dFJ9zw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Tom,
Kudos for making these things available. The links are great reading
as well.
I have the strong impression that this is different from the port
at Bell Labs described in the 1984 BSTJ article; can you confirm?
Warren, can you add the links into the README or whatever that's
in the archive?
Thanks,
Arnold
Tom Lyon <pugs@ieee.org> wrote:
> Hi, folks. Tom Lyon here - this UNIX 370 stuff was recovered by Stephen at
> LCM+L from DECtapes that I've had sitting around for 40+ years.
> You can read all about the Princeton/Amdahl project here:
> https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/12/370unixpart1/
>
> If anyone wants to get serious with the code, you'll need Hercules with a
> VM/370 image as well as a PDP-11 emulator running V6. There's not a lot
> beyond the kernel, I got the shell working enough to prove that fork
> worked, and then ran out of steam because of the awful communication
> problems between the PDP and the IBM. [ But that was my start as a
> networking guy ]. I personally haven't had time to do anything with the
> recovered bits.
>
> I've been lurking on TUHS for a while - a special Hi to Ken Thompson and
> Steve Johnson. I owe a lot to each of them. Read about my summer at Bell
> with the Interdata 8/32 here: https://akapugs.blog/2018/05/16/belllabspart1/
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 9:04 PM Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> > All, the second Unix artifact that I've been waiting to announce has
> > arrived. This time the LCM+L is announcing it. It's not the booting PDP-7.
> >
> > So, cast your eyes on https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/IBM/370/
> >
> > Cheers, Warren
> >
> > P.S Thanks to Stephen Jones for this as well.
> >
>
>
> --
> - Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-31 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-29 4:04 Warren Toomey
2019-10-29 5:07 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-29 5:19 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-29 7:14 ` SPC
2019-10-29 15:10 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-29 15:22 ` SPC
2019-11-05 4:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-10-31 3:56 ` Tom Lyon
2019-10-31 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-31 7:51 ` arnold [this message]
2019-10-31 13:51 ` Tom Lyon
2019-10-31 14:10 ` arnold
2019-10-31 14:22 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-31 14:24 ` SPC
2019-10-31 15:31 ` Charles H Sauer
2019-11-01 16:52 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-03 7:05 ` arnold
2019-11-03 21:16 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-04 14:43 ` arnold
2019-11-05 14:15 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-31 15:10 ` Heinz Lycklama
2019-11-01 16:40 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-31 8:09 ` SPC
2019-10-31 15:12 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-03 1:02 ` Kevin Bowling
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