Re: [TUHS] vi in v7

[Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>]

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Dave those are ANSI tape labels.  Unix does not use them    DEC did
although was inconsistent with the use particularly WRT HDR2 records.  Tom
Quarles (of spice 3 fame) wrote probably the best version for Unix to deal
with them.  I believe I gave a copy but it will be in BSD 4.1 maybe 4.2
compiler syntax. I'll ask him if he ever updated it. Clem

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:55 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> >       Weren't V5/6/7/etc distributed as bootable tapes?  Set the switch
> >       register to point to the tape instead of the disk...
> >
> > Yes. They were. We have V6 and V7 tapes (and a V5 disk image). Likely
> > earlier versions likely did too.  What I'd meant was that 2.8BSD is the
> > first 2BSD that had a bootable tape.
>
> Ah, my mistake.
>
> I think the loader also read just the first block, so woe betide you if
> you used a labelled tape...
>
> If I recall, VOL1, HDR1, etc.
>
> -- Dave

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