From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: lars@nocrew.org, jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 01:51:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202105260751.14Q7p90j010926@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <326daa73-ef29-49f7-ac63-c690ddfb73fc@PU1APC01FT023.eop-APC01.prod.protection.outlook.com>
The Tahoe was a CISC machine, different from both the RT and the 3B2.
Those emulators might be useful as examples of how to write an emulator,
but they won't help you to boot any code.
I think there were several companies that sold Tahoe architecture
machines, but I don't remember any more.
Arnold
Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
> It took me years of on and off to finally figure out what the heck a Tahoe even was.
>
> Spoiler for anyone who wasn’t there when it happened it’s a Harris HCX-9.
>
> The config file has this snippet:
>
> GENERIC POWER 6/32 (HCX9)
> With other bits that fit the bill in the source. With that said I don’t think there is any system ROM or firmware dumps or did it use a writeable control store?
>
> But then again there is some movement on an RT emulator and there is the 3b2 stuff so maybe there only needs to be a ‘push’…
>
> I’m far too novice for that kind of thing.
>
> From: Lars Brinkhoff
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2021 4:00 pm
> To: Jason Stevens
> Cc: Sean Dwyer; tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks
>
> Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> writes:
> > I know I’m going to probably regret this but have you tried 4.3BSD
> > Tahoe?
>
> No, but I'd like to see it run on a Tahoe (emulator). Maybe my vote for
> one of the most well known machines (due to BSD) that has seemingly
> completely dissapeared off the face of the earth. Happy to be proved
> wrong.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-26 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-16 4:17 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17 1:40 ` John Gilmore
2020-07-17 1:59 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17 3:35 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17 5:18 ` Random832
2020-07-17 13:12 ` Ron Pool
2020-07-17 23:50 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-21 4:15 ` tytso
2020-07-21 17:49 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17 5:23 ` Petr Titěra
2020-07-17 5:41 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17 6:04 ` Petr Titěra
2020-07-17 15:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17 17:19 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17 17:42 ` [TUHS] Linux on TUHS [was: H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks] salewski
2020-07-17 17:47 ` Sergio Pedraja
2020-07-17 17:26 ` [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks Warner Losh
2020-07-17 17:50 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-17 20:16 ` Petr Titěra
2020-07-17 21:48 ` A. P. Garcia
2020-07-17 19:46 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-07-17 5:24 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-17 5:30 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17 20:37 ` Petr Titěra
2020-07-17 18:16 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-05-18 1:33 ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-21 9:46 ` Sean Dwyer via TUHS
2021-05-26 1:12 ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26 1:34 ` Gregg Levine
2021-05-26 2:53 ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26 6:06 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-05-26 7:03 ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26 7:37 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-05-26 7:45 ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26 7:51 ` arnold [this message]
2021-05-26 7:56 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-05-26 14:58 ` Clem Cole
2021-05-26 18:12 ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26 23:29 ` Chris Torek
2021-05-26 14:06 ` Al Kossow
2021-05-26 14:25 ` Larry McVoy
2021-05-26 14:57 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-17 18:08 Norman Wilson
2020-07-17 18:14 ` John Cowan
2020-07-17 18:19 ` Larry McVoy
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