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* [TUHS] Mach'86
@ 2019-07-16  9:32 Jason Stevens
  2019-07-16 19:26 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
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From: Jason Stevens @ 2019-07-16  9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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For anyone that is interested, there is 2 files on Kirk’s DVD that don’t appear on the CD’s

mach.86-accent
mach.86

The smaller mach.86-accent is a few months newer than the other, and is strictly the kernel.  mach.86 contains 
stuff like the libraries for mach, bindings for pascal, along with an updated libc, and various binaries to run under
4.3BSD.  It appears that the Mach project at that time was pretty much in step with the CSRG release.

Speaking of pascal, the early version of MIG is actually written in pascal.  There is quite a #ifdef ACCENT stuff in the code
As well.  So the bindings are more than something superficial.

I had a major issue trying to use RA81 disks on SIMH, although switching to RP06’s seemed to have made things a 
little more stable, the larger issue seems to have been the async I/O code, and disabling that increased stability
and reduced disk corruption greatly.

Setting up the build involved copying files from the ‘cs’ directory to their respective homes, along with the ‘mach/bin/m*’
commands to the /bin directory.  Configuring the kernel is very much like a standard BSD kernel config, however the directory
needs to exist beforehand, and instead of the in path config command run the config command in the local directory.

I have been able to self host a kernel, and build a good portion of world before I realized that the I/O was probably what I was
Fighting and went back and restored the 4.3 tape back onto the HP’s and just re-built the kernel to verify it works.  For those
Wanting the command for SIMH it’s simply ‘set noasync’.  The XU adapter worked out of the box with a simple:

set xu ena
att xu nat:tcp=42323:10.0.2.15:23

Which allowed me to telnet into the VAX, making things much easier than dealing with the console.

While this kernel does have mentions of multi processor support I haven’t quite figured out what models (if any) are supported
On the VAX, and if SIMH emulates them.  While http://www.oboguev.net/vax_mp/ has a very interesting looking multiprocessor VAX
Emulation it’s a fictional model based on the microvax, which I’m pretty sure 4.3BSD/Mach’86 is far too old for.


And for those who like the gratuitious dmesg, this is a self hosted Mach build

loading hp(0,0)boot
Boot
: hp(0,0)vmunix
393480+61408+138472 start 0x1fa5
Vax boot: memory from 0x92000 to 0x800000
Kernel virtual space from 0x80000000 to 0x82000000.
Mach/4.3/2/1 #1: compiled in /usr/mk/MACH on wb2.cs.cmu.edu at Mon Oct 20 12:54:42 1986
physical memory = 8.00 megabytes.
available memory = 5.86 megabytes.
using 408 buffers containing 0.79 megabytes of memory
VAX 11/780, serial#1234(0), hardware ECO level=7(0)
mcr0 at tr1
mcr1 at tr2
uba0 at tr3
zs0 at uba0 csr 172520 vec 224, ipl 15
ts0 at zs0 slave 0
dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 300, ipl 15
de0 at uba0 csr 174510 vec 120, ipl 15
de0: hardware address 08:00:2b:0d:d1:48
mba0 at tr8
hp0 at mba0 drive 0
hp1 at mba0 drive 1
hp2 at mba0 drive 2
hp3 at mba0 drive 7
Changing root device to hp0a

I uploaded my SIMH config, along with the RP06 disk images here:  https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/4BSD%20under%20Windows/v0.4/Mach86.zip/download

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* Re: [TUHS] Mach'86
  2019-07-16  9:32 [TUHS] Mach'86 Jason Stevens
@ 2019-07-16 19:26 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
  2019-07-17  0:04   ` Jason Stevens
  2019-07-16 19:34 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
  2019-07-17  7:33 ` emanuel stiebler
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Madeline Autumn-Rose @ 2019-07-16 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, at 02:33, Jason Stevens wrote: 
> I uploaded my SIMH config, along with the RP06 disk images here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/4BSD%20under%20Windows/v0.4/Mach86.zip/download


`ps` is a little unhappy. Hmm. Wonder why.

myname# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND
ps: cant read u for pid -26328 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read indir pte to get u for pid 0 from /dev/kmem
ps: cant read u for pid -15008 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read indir pte to get u for pid 0 from /dev/kmem
ps: cant read u for pid -32767 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read indir pte to get u for pid 0 from /dev/kmem
ps: cant read u for pid 0 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read u for pid 0 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read indir pte to get u for pid 124 from /dev/kmem

I don't think those PIDs should be negative. :)
--
 Madeline Autumn-Rose
 b4@gewt.net


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* Re: [TUHS] Mach'86
  2019-07-16  9:32 [TUHS] Mach'86 Jason Stevens
  2019-07-16 19:26 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
@ 2019-07-16 19:34 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
  2019-07-17  7:33 ` emanuel stiebler
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Madeline Autumn-Rose @ 2019-07-16 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, at 02:33, Jason Stevens wrote:
> Emulation it’s a fictional model based on the microvax, which I’m pretty sure 4.3BSD/Mach’86 is far too old for.


There are strings in the kernel for the MicroVAX I/II:
VAX 8600, serial#%d(%d), hardware ECO level=%d(%d)
VAX 820X, urev=%d, patch rev=%d, cpu rev=%d
VAX 11/78%c, serial#%d(%d), hardware ECO level=%d(%d)
VAX 11/750, hardware level=%d, microcode level=%d
MicroVAX-I, hardware level=%d, %c-Float microcode level=%d
MicroVAX-II (with%s FPU, SYSCODE:%d, ROM Rev:%d)
--
 Madeline Autumn-Rose
 b4@gewt.net


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* Re: [TUHS] Mach'86
  2019-07-16 19:26 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
@ 2019-07-17  0:04   ` Jason Stevens
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jason Stevens @ 2019-07-17  0:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs, Madeline Autumn-Rose

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Mach has its own ps.  The problem is that it just dumps core.  I rebuilt it from inside the source, and it has some weird pathing issues, but it dumps core too.




At that point I kind of gave up.




One fun thing is searching the boot string reveals exactly one machine running this build.  Although I would imagine that they probably have nothing left of this.. 




#N	thrash


#S	DEC VAX 11/785; Mach/4.3/2/1


#O	Princeton University, Department of Computer Science


#C	Pat Parseghian


#E	princeton!pep


#T	+1 609 452 6261


#P	Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ 08544


#L	40 21 N / 74 40 W


#W	princeton!pep (Pat Parseghian); Mon Nov	 6 18:19:19 EST 1989




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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:37 AM +0800, "Madeline Autumn-Rose" <b4@gewt.net> wrote:










On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, at 02:33, Jason Stevens wrote: 


I uploaded my SIMH config, along with the RP06 disk images here:  https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/4BSD%20under%20Windows/v0.4/Mach86.zip/download

`ps` is a little unhappy. Hmm. Wonder why.

myname# ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
ps: cant read u for pid -26328 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read indir pte to get u for pid 0 from /dev/kmem
ps: cant read u for pid -15008 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read indir pte to get u for pid 0 from /dev/kmem
ps: cant read u for pid -32767 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read indir pte to get u for pid 0 from /dev/kmem
ps: cant read u for pid 0 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read u for pid 0 from /dev/drum
ps: cant read indir pte to get u for pid 124 from /dev/kmem

I don't think those PIDs should be negative. :)
--
  Madeline Autumn-Rose
  b4@gewt.net








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* Re: [TUHS] Mach'86
  2019-07-16  9:32 [TUHS] Mach'86 Jason Stevens
  2019-07-16 19:26 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
  2019-07-16 19:34 ` Madeline Autumn-Rose
@ 2019-07-17  7:33 ` emanuel stiebler
  2019-07-17 14:12   ` Clem Cole
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: emanuel stiebler @ 2019-07-17  7:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jason Stevens, The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

On 2019-07-16 11:32, Jason Stevens wrote:

> While this kernel does have mentions of multi processor support I
> haven’t quite figured out what models (if any) are supported
> 
> On the VAX, and if SIMH emulates them.  While
> http://www.oboguev.net/vax_mp/ has a very interesting looking
> multiprocessor VAX

The only one I can think of is the 11/782 in this time frame.
The next experiment, the 3520/3540 were much later, and probably slower ;-)

Cheers

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* Re: [TUHS] Mach'86
  2019-07-17  7:33 ` emanuel stiebler
@ 2019-07-17 14:12   ` Clem Cole
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Clem Cole @ 2019-07-17 14:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emanuel stiebler; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:56 AM emanuel stiebler <emu@e-bbes.com> wrote:

> On 2019-07-16 11:32, Jason Stevens wrote:
>
> > While this kernel does have mentions of multi processor support I
> > haven’t quite figured out what models (if any) are supported
>
> Historically, the Mach MP work was done on an Encore system not Vaxen but
I've forgotten which model and what the processor was.  I wanted to say
Encore used the NS 16032, but I'm not willing to go out on a limb on that
thought.   Bob Baron, Mike Accetta or Rich Rashid probably remembers.  You
might look at the code for Encore support, and that might give you a hint.
  FWIW:   I've lost track of Bob who was at Pitt last time I knew, but Mike
is still at Microsoft.  I believe I heard Rich retired, but I'm not sure of
that.
Clem

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