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From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] Minor Milestone: Venix 86 "user mode" interpreter
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:23:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpYzFoCvhY8cjv8xAicugFPym6fMO1nhsf34JQ2uH_K1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACCFpdw6ZJok_oDysWtnFQyE2jFPf53xY++NasyY62kA6+pYSQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:30 PM, Nigel Williams <
nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > So, I thought I'd share this here. Don't know if anybody else is
> interested,
> > but you never know until you tell people about stuff...
>
> Definitely glad to see efforts to reverse-engineer this software.
>

Cool...


> 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/


Yea, this is where I got the XT version that's in my repo :) I've been
working with the Rainbow mess emulator author to get the Rainbow version
working..

Has anyone established whether all the various Venix releases have
> been found and which of the add-on tools have been found? like the
> Fortran and RM/COBOL referenced on wikipedia?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venix
>

I have none of them. I just have Venix... I'd love to see them...

Warner
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-12  4:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-12  2:22 Warner Losh
2018-04-12  3:30 ` Nigel Williams
2018-04-12  4:23   ` Warner Losh [this message]
2018-04-12  4:52   ` Jim Carpenter
2018-04-12 13:22     ` Warner Losh
2018-04-12  8:10 ` Mutiny

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