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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] vi in v7
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:16:55 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200726001655.107AF18C0B8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Dave Horsfall

    > Weren't V5/6/7/etc distributed as bootable tapes?  Set the switch register 
    > to point to the tape instead of the disk...

Yes. See here:

  https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_UNIX_Sixth_Edition
  https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Unix_Seventh_Edition

for the details of how it works.

    Noel


             reply	other threads:[~2020-07-26  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-26  0:16 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2020-07-26  0:39 ` Adam Thornton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-07-25 14:34 Will Senn
2020-07-25 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-25 15:36   ` Warner Losh
2020-07-26  0:06     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-26  0:13       ` Warner Losh
2020-08-01  7:54         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-01 12:15           ` Clem Cole
2020-08-01 14:33             ` Warner Losh
2020-08-01 15:41               ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26  0:41       ` Clem Cole

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