From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id a3380b8b for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2678E9BCD9; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:52:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2D993D35; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:51:33 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1E58693D35; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:51:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CA6693D2E; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:51:25 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id x9V7pKsC030055 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:51:20 -0600 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id x9V7pJ26030054; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:51:19 -0600 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <201910310751.x9V7pJ26030054@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:51:19 -0600 To: wkt@tuhs.org, pugs@ieee.org References: <20191029040434.GA29996@minnie.tuhs.org> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix, IBM, 370 X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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 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 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