From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:45:15 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] V7 Addendem In-Reply-To: References: <201712061336.vB6DaMqQ032571@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: s/did get polluted/didn't get polluted/ --- sigh On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Clem Cole wrote: > An observation ... in reading the last few days emails, I fear there may > be some confusion - there were two different tapes. The infamous 'patch > tape' that Lou was discussing was patches to the *Sixth Edition* which I > want to say '76 or 77 timeframe (should be able to be dated by when Chesson > graduated from UofI and Ken was on his way to UCB for a sabbatical). > > I can date this because we had a copy of the patch tape at CMU at least by > I think late '77/early '78 when I was hacking full-time for the EE Dept. > CS had switched from the Fifth Edition on their systems, which was my > introduction. I would eventually bring up 6th on an original 11/34 (not a > 34A). The 11/34 did not 'just work' due to some small differences between > the 11/40 and the 11/34 and remember having to do it from first principles > borrowing a hacked CS system (11/40e), that had CSR/CRET stuff in their > compiler, so I went back to just booting Ken's original tape, hacking until > both 11/34 and the 11/40 boot and then having to reapplied the patches, > because I wanted to make sure I did get polluted with the 11/40e stuff. > > The V7 addendum was obviously post Seventh Edition. The Seventh Edition > was released in 1979 for general availability**; although it's direct > predecessor (UNIX/TS) which was not officially released made its way to > number of places such as MIT and CMU via OYOCs and summer students as Noel > and I have pointed out in the past. Noel (MIT) and I (CMU) both had > heavily hacked systems that were combo's of V6, PWB [1.0], UNIX/TS plus > local additions. UNIX/TS had a newer kernel, updated FS and the compiler > that was released with troff - a.k.a. 'Typesetter C' [Historical note - > this was the system Ted with a small amount of help from me, used to create > fsck]. > > If I recall the V7 'addendum' is in reference to the later (post 1980) V7 > distribution tapes, that had one more file on it with some > additions/corrections from Research as Doug mentioned. IIRC: The first V7 > tapes that went out in '79 (such as the ones I recieved at CMU and then > Tektronix) did not have that file and the copy said tape I have home is > missing it (I just checked the label). > > Clem > > > **V7 GA was in Feb '79 I think, I can not find my copy of Al Arm's letter > to the licensees announcing it, I seem to have lost it - any other pack > rat/old f*rt please check your files. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: