From: tim.newsham@gmail.com (Tim Newsham)
Subject: [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:44:44 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGSRWbg-RxtWLSg2BVCWAYX86Wc97OmMFYSeVtaQHVxLYH3TDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170329004914.D997818C083@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
There's a lot of fun and learning to be had besides doing an install.
An easy entry point encourags more people to learn the system and
get to the point where they could tackle an install of their own.
The script serves two purposes
1) it sets up a clean system
2) it documents the install process
you could also provide a pre-existing built system for
people to play with (which is also useful). I personally
prefer the script.
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
> > From: Tim Newsham
>
> > Would be great if someone scripted it up to make it dog-simple.
>
> But if people just have to press a button (basically), they won't learn
> anything. I guess I'm not understanding the point of the exercise? To say
> they
> have V6 running? So what? All they did was press a button. If it's to
> experience a retro-computing environment, well, a person who's never used
> one
> of these older systems is going to be kind of lost - what are they going to
> do, type 'ls -ls' and look at the output? Not very illuminating. (On V6,
> without learning 'ed', they can't even type in a small C program, and
> compile
> and run it.) Sorry, I don't mean to be cranky, but I'm not understanding
> the
> point.
>
> Noel
>
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-29 0:49 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-29 1:02 ` Grant Taylor
2017-03-29 10:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-29 11:19 ` [TUHS] Release of 8th, 9th and 10th Editions Unix (was: Re: 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH) Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-03-29 2:44 ` Tim Newsham [this message]
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2017-04-27 1:04 [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH Norman Wilson
2017-04-27 1:26 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-03-31 22:31 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-03-30 11:47 Jason Stevens
2017-03-29 1:45 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-29 1:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-29 4:11 ` Grant Taylor
2017-03-28 18:58 David du Colombier
2017-03-28 19:32 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-28 23:50 ` Tim Newsham
2017-04-25 3:16 ` Tim Newsham
2017-04-25 20:34 ` David du Colombier
2017-04-26 3:50 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-29 1:06 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-29 1:19 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-29 1:35 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-30 14:16 ` David du Colombier
2017-03-30 18:30 ` David du Colombier
2017-03-31 5:05 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-03-31 5:36 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-03-31 14:41 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-04-26 3:05 ` Tim Newsham
2017-04-26 5:53 ` Noel Hunt
2017-04-26 6:10 ` Tim Newsham
2017-04-26 23:49 ` Tim Newsham
2017-04-26 22:45 ` Tim Newsham
2017-04-26 23:02 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-04-26 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-26 23:07 ` Kurt H Maier
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