From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: (qmail 14556 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2020 22:12:19 -0000 Received-SPF: pass (minnie.tuhs.org: domain of minnie.tuhs.org designates 45.79.103.53 as permitted sender) receiver=inbox.vuxu.org; client-ip=45.79.103.53 envelope-from= Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with UTF8ESMTPZ; 6 Apr 2020 22:12:19 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6DEAC9448D; Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:12:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB62E94485; Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:11:41 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1586211129; bh=5UMBQM8RbZgV4MyXxX43jJyr0KWQnrDyHtOc0spH7HM=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:List-Id:List-Unsubscribe:List-Archive: List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe:From; b=AaefRs+rU1uOwaJZHaYngHz28QzKr4IKG2tTodIA280+AKe2UxvtynfSxLQnc6Dcy SscXwXol0yjux3uTvRKtI644fLn1U3WYb4sfB+NYGpv6DPDC8XhAALlPrPlb/nfiuF hKjy+oqI8xXyLGwLKCyHD4DJUvsbrXCmDRGyElgM= Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93A3293D06; Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:11:38 +1000 (AEST) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:11:38 +1000 From: Warren Toomey To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-ID: <20200406221138.GA10092@minnie.tuhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Subject: [TUHS] Software Archaeology Challenge? 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Anybody feel up for a bit of an archaeology challenge? Warner Losh is currently poking through a bunch of bits but not having much luck decoding them correctly. I've put a copy here: https://minnie.tuhs.org/Y5/Challenge/ If you can help, I'd suggest report major findings here, and we can use the #TUHS channel in the ClassicCmp Discord server for chat. Here's what Warner has found out so far: It's quite interesting, but in a format I've so far not been able to decode more than with emacs. However, there's all kinds of wonderful here. This looks like it was a dump from a VMS (or maybe similar DEC OS) ANSI tape. There's 4 datasets of 2.5MB each. The first one appears to be a V5 tree of some sort (at least it matches the V5 sources in places I can spot check in Dennis_v5. The second block looks v6ish or maybe pwbish, but no kernel sources. I don't think it's a continuation of the v5 stuff from the first dataset. The third dataset is all binaries, as far as I can tell so far, but things like mv and passwd. The 4th dataset appears to be the dump of a VENIX-11 system, complete with source. The 3rd dataset appears to be a Venix system. At least it has venix and venix.old in what looks like the root directory. Still trying to sort out extracting files from these datasets. v7fs hates them, but I'm almost positive that's what they are. Cheers, Warren