From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:11:57 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] New PDF version of Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 In the SimH PDP-11/45 and 11/70 Emulators In-Reply-To: References: <00712ca5-edd5-c198-4628-4bcd71669a64@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello! I was thinking of Linux, since it and FreeBSD, and even NetBSD, are next door neighbors of a sort. But at least it is a start. Thank you! ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Will Senn wrote: > Gregg, > > I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but as mentioned in the > note, I tested the instructions on Mac OS X Mavericks through MacOS High > Sierra as well as multiple flavors of FreeBSD 10-11. Your comment sparked my > interest in trying it out on Windows (maybe that's the OS non-grata?), so I > tested it there as well. Seems to work, although I found the experience > distasteful in the extreme . The number of tools missing on that OS are mind > boggling... but I did get it working. In full disclosure, I couldn't bring > myself to run it on metal. I just ran the Windows 8.1 Enterprise > environment in a VM running on Linux Mint 18.2 (a debian/ubuntu variant). > > Just so you know, I have to have a *nix like set of tools on any OS I use, > these days, or I feel like my left arm is missing, so the minimal workable > set for me in this case was Git with unix tools (a version on MinGW, I > think). I used to use Cygwin, but it's so bloated it's sickening and the > installer is unfriendly to say the least (I would be satisfied with a button > that said "reasonable set of unix tools", but the minimal selection is > minimalist, not reasonable). Anyhow, Git with unix tools will get you a bash > shell that has an almost reasonable set of tools. Enough the do the work > required for this note anyway. SimH has binaries for windows to download. I > picked the one that was created 29 days ago, unzipped it, put it on the path > and it just worked. Quite a few steps in the prep required minor tweakage > (no vi, no emacs - see what I mean about minimal not being reasonable, but > notepad++ worked ok; no gunzip, but gzip -d < zipfile > unzipped worked, > perl script didn't seem to work right, not sure what that's about - may look > into it later, since I wrote it, but in the meantime I just downloaded the > tap file from the archive and it worked fine)... > > Bottom line for windows, download the tap file from the archive, create two > ini files, one for first boot, the other for normal boot and the rest of the > instructions work verbatim. > > I haven't bothered with linux, just cuz I somehow didn't, but I gather it > will probably work about as well as on the BSD's. > > Is that what you were asking, or something more subtle? > > Regards, > Will > > On 10/12/17 12:32 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: >> >> Hello! >> (If this is seen twice, then that's because Google complained that the >> mangle list wasn't accepting messages.) >> Will, has this been idea been tested on any of the platforms that the >> emulator runs on? (Not going to mention one in particular by name >> since it's sore spot around here.) >> ----- >> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com >> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Will Senn wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I just finished creating an updated PDF version of a blog post I did a >>> couple of years back, describing how to install and use Unix v7 in SimH. >>> It's updated for 2017 and MacOS High Sierra 10.13. I started the update >>> because I was wanting to do some research in v7 and thought it would be >>> good >>> to have a current set of instructions but really because I was interested >>> in >>> learning a bit about LaTeX and creating prettier, more useful documents. >>> The >>> notes still work fine as originally written, but I organized things a >>> little >>> differently and tweaked some of the language. I thought somebody else >>> might >>> like having a PDF version around so I uploaded the result, call it >>> revision >>> 1.1, and made it publicly accessible (the blog still needs updating, >>> somebody oughta do something about link impermanence, but that's all for >>> another day). Feel free to comment or complain. I added a section in >>> honor >>> of dmr at one commenter's suggestion. Here's the link: >>> >>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1_Jn6Hlzym-Zmx1TjR3TENDQTA >>> >>> Later, >>> >>> Will >>> >>> -- >>> GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF >>> >>> > > -- > GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF >