From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fwd: Choice of Unix for 11/03 and 11/23+ Systems
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:59:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200922155943.EF32A18C09D@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Paul Riley
> In the bootable images archive, there's the "Unknown V6" RL02
> image. I've tried that on SimH configured as an 11/23+ with 256kB of RAM
> and it seems to work fine.
Sorry, where's this archive? Somewhere in:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/
I assume? From the description, that might be from the 'Shoppa disks'; didn't
realize that was a /23 on those.
> I would assume that Ethernet boards are available, but not supported on
> V6.
V6, as distributed, had no networking at all. There are two V6 systems with
networking in TUHS:
https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SRI-NOSC
https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6
The first is an 'NCP' Unix (unless unless you have an ARPANet); the second is
a fairly early TCP/IP from BBN (ditto, out of the box; although one could write
an Ethernet driver for it).
There's also a fairly nice Internet-capable V6 (well, PWB1, actually) from MIT
which I keep meaning to upload; it includes SMTP, FTP, etc, etc. I also have
visions of porting an ARP I wrote to it, and bringing up an Ethernet driver
for the DEQNA/DELQA, but I've yet to get to any of that.
> it's hard to glean that wisdom from reading the manual.
Yeah, DEC manuals went through a phase-change around about the time of the
/23. Old DEC manuals are wonderful; stuffed to the gills with deep technical
details. Suitable for engineers...
Later, they turned into manuals for 'ordinary people' - 'plug cable C1 into
plug P1'. Semi-useless; although one can often glean a few useful morsels if
you trawl through the entire thing.
That's why I've been doing PDP-11 pages on the CHWiki which attempt to cover a
lot of technical detail, in a high technical content/size way.
If you need something that's not there, let me know, and I'll get to adding it.
Noel
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