[TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH

[tim.newsham@gmail.com (Tim Newsham)]

Do you know who wrote the /sys/src/games/blit emulator?
There's a piece of code in it that I had to comment out that
I dont understand and I want to ask about it:

        }
-       write(3, rom, sizeof(rom));
+    /* I dont know what this was for, but it spews garbage
+     * out telnet to the vax, causing it to hang.
+     */
+       //write(3, rom, sizeof(rom));
 }

I'm not sure what fd 3 is intended to be, but its the telnet socket in p9p.


On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:30 AM, David du Colombier <0intro at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This image is ready to be used with aiju's Blit emulator,
> which is available as part of 9front.
>
> http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/tip/sys/src/games/blit
>
> This emulator works on most Plan 9 distributions. You just
> have to copy the /sys/lib/blit and /sys/src/games/blit
> directories to your system.
>
> With the v8.ini startup file provided, the console will be
> listening on port 8888/tcp once SIMH has been started.
>
> You have to run the emulator and connect to the console:
>
> % cd /sys/src/games/blit
> % mk install
> % games/blit -t tcp!hostname!8888
>
> Once connected, enter your login and password.
>
> login: root
>
> Then, you can launch the mux window system:
>
> $ /usr/blit/bin/mux
>
> Once started, you can run any graphical program.
> Binaries are located in the /usr/blit/bin directory.
>
> For example, here is jim text editor:
>
> http://9legacy.org/img/v8/jim_01.png
>
> --
> David du Colombier
>



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