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From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>, Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SDB debugger
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 12:53:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBdFDPySSS8LxVhtSqi3PH+wuiaUo0tQ=HxZni2BDdEKwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2P6L1DPdDW4rhBXD-9v9AhZ2Of339GFLsUVmmiQ+LMu7Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 12:14, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

>
> Paul W -- do you remember if DEC TLG did a version of dbx for Ultrix
> (Leslie might remember)?  FWIW: I know that DEC had a number of different
> debugger projects so on the UNIX side over the years, and I really don't
> remember what was done for the VAX, as I was not there at the time.  By
> MIPS/Alpha in the mid-late 90's there was a whole new debugger stream that
> had been developed at part of GEM, but there was another one that came from
> MIPs too which was based on dbx.
>

Perhaps unsurprisingly, as Ultrix 1 was basically just 4.2BSD with some
tweaks/addons, dbx has been there since the beginning as /usr/ucb/dbx.  The
binary in 1.1 has SCCS strings mostly dating it to '83 and the 2.0 source
tree has dates that are mostly December '84.

-Henry

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-03 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-01 20:48 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-05-01 21:57 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-02  9:10   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-05-02 16:04     ` Clem Cole
2020-05-01 23:05 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2020-05-02  0:49 ` Noel Hunt
2020-05-02  1:22   ` Rob Pike
2020-05-02  3:49     ` Noel Hunt
2020-05-02 20:16   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-05-03  6:58     ` arnold
2020-05-03 16:13     ` Clem Cole
2020-05-03 16:53       ` Henry Bent [this message]
2020-05-03 17:06         ` Henry Bent
2020-05-03 17:13       ` Henry Bent
2020-05-03 20:26         ` Clem Cole
2020-05-05  0:22           ` [TUHS] DEC Compilers (was: " Win Treese
2020-05-05 17:36             ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-05 18:53               ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2020-05-05 21:59               ` Dan Cross
2020-05-05 21:49             ` Henry Bent
2020-05-03 17:35       ` [TUHS] " Paul Winalski
2020-05-03 21:27       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-05-12  4:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-02  2:52 Doug McIlroy
2020-05-02 17:45 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-03 16:16   ` Rich Morin
2020-05-12  4:36     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-03  2:21 Norman Wilson
2020-05-03  2:41 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-03  7:14   ` arnold
2020-05-03  3:05 ` Rob Pike

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