From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:22:24 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Minor Milestone: Venix 86 "user mode" interpreter In-Reply-To: <455da14d-3d14-82a3-3d4f-b0716f4a3b5c@deitygraveyard.com> References: <455da14d-3d14-82a3-3d4f-b0716f4a3b5c@deitygraveyard.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:52 PM, Jim Carpenter wrote: > On 04/11/2018 11:30 PM, Nigel Williams wrote: > > For the curious there is a good walk-through of Venix/86 2.1 being > > installed here on the MESS emulator: > > > > https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2015/ > 08/14/venturcomm-venix86-on-messmame/ > > > > > I'm the one that wrote that walk-through. The challenge was very > frustrating because MESS didn't/doesn't allow double-density media in > high-density drives and the images I had to work with were a mix of > both. Also, the one bootable image supported only one floppy drive and > had no mknod. But I did win $100 for being the first to get it to > compile and run a certain program. Yay! Back in the day I had always > wanted Venix so it was nice finally getting to do something with it and > make money doing it. > Yea, in my tools directory, there's a venixp2l.c that makes the diskettes into tarballs effectively. Though I never have figured out how to convert the /dev entries to proper c or b device nodes. It was quite helpful, because this image had low.s in it, which I didn't have yet :) Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: