[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[Cory Smelosky]

All,

I'm dumping as much BSD/OS stuff as I can tonight. This includes: SPARC,
sources, and betas.

Unable to dump any floppies, however.

-- 
  Cory Smelosky
  b4 at gewt.net

[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[Cory Smelosky]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017, at 19:52, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm dumping as much BSD/OS stuff as I can tonight. This includes: SPARC,
> sources, and betas.
> 
> Unable to dump any floppies, however.

I never found my USB floppy drive, unfortunately. Nothing else with a
floppy drive is currently happy.

> 
> -- 
>   Cory Smelosky
>   b4 at gewt.net


-- 
  Cory Smelosky
  b4 at gewt.net

[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[Cory Smelosky]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017, at 19:53, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017, at 19:52, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm dumping as much BSD/OS stuff as I can tonight. This includes: SPARC,
> > sources, and betas.
> > 
> > Unable to dump any floppies, however.
> 
> I never found my USB floppy drive, unfortunately. Nothing else with a
> floppy drive is currently happy.
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> >   Cory Smelosky
> >   b4 at gewt.net
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Cory Smelosky
>   b4 at gewt.net

Snagged it all - it's 19G.

Now I can get the documentation to the CHM.

-- 
  Cory Smelosky
  b4 at gewt.net

[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[Al Kossow]

MtXinu w NFS is still on the most wanted list.
Unforunately, they used really bad magtape for distribuition which remains sticky
no matter what I try to do to make it readable.

On 2/24/17 7:52 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm dumping as much BSD/OS stuff as I can tonight. This includes: SPARC,
> sources, and betas.
> 
> Unable to dump any floppies, however.
> 

[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[Cory Smelosky]

Argh!

MtXinu is something I really want.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 25, 2017, at 10:57, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
> 
> MtXinu w NFS is still on the most wanted list.
> Unforunately, they used really bad magtape for distribuition which remains sticky
> no matter what I try to do to make it readable.
> 
>> On 2/24/17 7:52 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> I'm dumping as much BSD/OS stuff as I can tonight. This includes: SPARC,
>> sources, and betas.
>> 
>> Unable to dump any floppies, however.
>> 
> 

[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[Deborah Scherrer]

I worked there for 10 years (eventually becoming President).  I'll try 
to dig up a tape.
Deborah

On 2/25/17 11:25 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> Argh!
>
> MtXinu is something I really want.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 25, 2017, at 10:57, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>>
>> MtXinu w NFS is still on the most wanted list.
>> Unforunately, they used really bad magtape for distribuition which remains sticky
>> no matter what I try to do to make it readable.
>>
>>> On 2/24/17 7:52 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I'm dumping as much BSD/OS stuff as I can tonight. This includes: SPARC,
>>> sources, and betas.
>>>
>>> Unable to dump any floppies, however.
>>>

[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[Ron Natalie]

I've got a USB floppy drive that is kind of worthless for the purpose I bought it for.   If someone wants it for historical research purposes, I'd be glad to send it along.

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Subject: Re: [TUHS] BSDi Imaging



On Fri, Feb 24, 2017, at 19:52, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm dumping as much BSD/OS stuff as I can tonight. This includes: 
> SPARC, sources, and betas.
> 
> Unable to dump any floppies, however.

I never found my USB floppy drive, unfortunately. Nothing else with a floppy drive is currently happy.

> 
> -- 
>   Cory Smelosky
>   b4 at gewt.net


--
  Cory Smelosky
  b4 at gewt.net

[TUHS] BSDi Imaging

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Deborah Scherrer

    > On 2/25/17 11:25 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:

    >> MtXinu is something I really want.

    > I worked there for 10 years (eventually becoming President).  I'll try 
    > to dig up a tape.

Say what you will about RMS, but he really did change the world of software.
Most code (except for very specialized applications) just isn't worth much
anymore (because of competition from open source) - which is part of why all
these old code packages are now freely available.


Although I suppose the development of portabilty - which really took off with
C and Unix, although it had existed to some degree before that, q.v. the tools
collection in FORTRAN we just mentioned - was also a factor, it made it
possible to amortize code writing over a number of different types of
machines.

There were in theory portable languages beforehand (e.g. PL/1), but I think it
probably over-specified things - e.g. it would be impossible to port Multics
to another architecture without almost completely re-writing it from scratch,
the code is shot through with "fixed bin(18)"'s every other line...

	Noel