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From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Are there images of any SVR2's available online?
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:26:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBfxmEsObCCEHARb303KcuSaU9VkCjHmSThgFKz2+yHD=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abf999-1a19-9075-0087-2ba6d4f19261@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>

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On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 at 13:33, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:

>
> I'm following suit for 4.4BSD as I've got The Design and Implementation
> of the 4.4BSD Operating System book (ISBN: 0-201-54979-4) on my desk.
>
> Sadly it seems as if 4.4BSD-Encumbered would be required to run it on a
> VAX emulator and 4.4BSD-Lite is apparently non-starter.
>
>
4.4's /usr/src/sys/vax/README:
The VAX architecture does not compile in 4.4BSD, as it has
not been converted to the new VM.  It is here for porting
information purposes only.

The best you can do as-is on a VAX is 4.3-Reno.

-Henry

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-24 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-24  4:38 Will Senn
2021-12-24  7:09 ` Warner Losh
2021-12-24 16:20   ` Will Senn
2021-12-24 11:20 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2021-12-24 13:56 ` Clem Cole
2021-12-24 16:27   ` Will Senn
2021-12-24 18:32     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-12-24 19:26       ` Henry Bent [this message]
2021-12-24 19:31         ` Warner Losh
2021-12-24 21:27           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-12-24 19:35         ` Erik E. Fair
2021-12-24 21:23         ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-12-26 12:37           ` [TUHS] 4.4BSD run on (Re: Are there images of any SVR2's available online?) MOCHIDA Shuji
2021-12-24 16:57 ` [TUHS] Are there images of any SVR2's available online? Seth Morabito
2021-12-24 18:45   ` Will Senn
2021-12-26 15:11   ` Will Senn
2021-12-26 15:17     ` arnold
2021-12-24 18:02 ` Arno Griffioen via TUHS

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