From: Benito Buchheim <benito.buchheim@student.hpi.de>
To: <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Running Research Unix v3 on simh
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 09:51:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e68c3f4-af37-a70f-2a1a-530dfcf0ae51@student.hpi.de> (raw)
Hello everyone,
My name is Benito Buchheim and I am a computer science student at
Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Germany.
During our Operating Systems Course we came across The Unix Heritage
Society, more specifically Research Unix Version 3, and took a look into
the source code of this version.
The idea arose to try to get this running somehow as a sort of voluntary
task.
So I started digging my way through the available material and quickly
found the "modified_nsys" version by Warren Toomey, which conveniently
contained a very detailed readme file on how to compile and run this
version on a Unix v5 emulator.
Thus, I started cloning the simh Github Repository and built the pdp11
emulator.
After downloading the v5root disk image and figuring out how to use simh
to run it, I had a working Unix v5, but struggled a bit to copy more
than one file onto it using the emulated devices.
In the end, I used a very Hacky way and wrote a short python script
which just runs the emulator and "copy pastes" the folder structure into
the image. I now thought to be ready to start working my way through
Toomey's readme.
Unfortunately already the first command failed quite miserably. I
changed my working directory and ran the first shell script to compile
the kernel, but cc spat out loads of error messages which are not very
detailed. As this is a very early version of c code I am kinda stuck at
this point and running a bit out of ideas on what may have gone wrong.
As there is this mailing list we thought to have a chat with the
experts. Maybe there is somebody who could help or give a hint on how to
get this running on the pdp11 emulator.
I attached my shell script output and the v5 image containing the v3
source code in the /sys/nsys directory.
It can be downloaded here:
https://www.mission-eins.de/runningv3.zip
Thanks a lot and best wishes from a small suburb near Berlin,
Benito Buchheim
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