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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fwd: Choice of Unix for 11/03 and 11/23+ Systems
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:46:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpuuFs+yXuX5SPx2AG7P+BVWkbYcN2Z3ujNN=bV+73ZNQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200922213611.6AFEE18C0B4@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:37 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > If you want multiple users on an -11/03, Mini-Unix would be an
> option;
>     > zit doesn't support the -11/03 'out of the box', but looking at it,
> it
>     > shouldn't be too hard. (Heinz mentioned that it had been done
> before.)
>
> On thinking about it, I might do the -11/03 port of Mini-Unix for the hack
> value; it looks like it should be a quick project (a couple of hours, much
> of
> which would be getting Mini-Unix set up; I'd use a simulator, my QBUS RK11
> emulator is broken at the moment).
>
> I think it should mostly just be some fairly straight-forward changes to
> mch.s; I think all the C code would be fine. (Unless there's an
> 'PS->integ' or
> something hiding somewhere.) Also a few odds and ends, like a software
> console
> switch register (been there, done that).
>
> That would make the full power of Mini-Unix available to people with
> -11/03's;
> those are still fairly common, and reasonably cheap. (Unlike -11/05's.)
> It's a
> considerably more capable system than LSX: e.g. the tty driver is the full
> V6
> one, and supports an arbitrary number of devices.
>
>
> So my question is: had anyone else already done this (I don't want to waste
> time replicating already-done work)? Also, would anyone have a use for it
> if I
> did it? If so, I'll put it up on a Web page when I'm done. (No, I _don't_
> use
> Guthub, and have zero interest in learning how. I'd rather spend my
> remaining
> un-comitted neurons improving my ability to read feudal Japanese.)
>

There's several references to different miniunix patches in the AUSAM
newletters... Any chance those are still around? They don't seem to be in
the TUHS AUSAM archives, though...

Warner

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Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22 21:36 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-22 21:46 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2020-09-22 21:49 ` John Foust
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-03  1:25 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-18 21:36 Norman Wilson
2020-10-12 22:43 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-12 19:27 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-10 23:29 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-11  2:30 ` Jay Logue
2020-10-11 23:24 ` Paul Riley
2020-10-12  0:53   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-12  1:56     ` Warner Losh
2020-10-12  2:09       ` Andrew Warkentin
2020-10-12 16:57       ` Arthur Krewat
2020-10-18 20:42     ` Michael Huff
2020-10-08 23:49 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-08 16:06 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 23:08 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-07  5:24 ` Jay Logue
2020-10-06 20:34 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 19:34 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 19:04 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 14:46 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 16:22 ` jay-tuhs9915
2020-10-02  0:39 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-01 12:51 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-02  0:23 ` Paul Riley
2020-09-30 23:16 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-30 18:51 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-30 17:58 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-28 23:21 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-30  1:50 ` Paul Riley
2020-09-27 21:07 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-27 21:12 ` Warner Losh
2020-09-28  0:22   ` Pete Turnbull
2020-09-27 20:50 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-29 13:20 ` Paul Riley
2020-09-25 22:08 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-26 14:52 ` John Foust
2020-09-28  0:03 ` Paul Riley
2020-09-28  0:06   ` Paul Riley
2020-09-24 18:56 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-24 13:04 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-24 18:24 ` John Cowan
2020-09-24 11:02 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-02-03  0:12 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-09-24  1:28 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-23 23:14 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-24  1:09 ` John Foust
2020-09-22 21:51 John Foust
2020-09-22 15:59 Noel Chiappa
2021-02-03  0:07 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-09-22  0:47 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-21 19:37 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-21 23:16 ` devin davison
2020-09-21 18:13 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-21 17:59 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-21 18:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2020-09-20 13:12 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-19 15:28 Noel Chiappa
2020-09-21 10:26 ` Paul Riley
2021-01-24 16:07 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-01-25  4:58   ` Gregg Levine
2021-01-25  8:21     ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
     [not found] <CAD05_j1bc6DDRtfPkd4QVeWXjwSp73bty46D=2ATozUbHThBWw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-09-19  3:22 ` Paul Riley
2020-09-19 14:20   ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-09-21 13:54     ` Paul Riley
2020-09-21 15:30       ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-09-21 23:27   ` Henry Bent
     [not found]     ` <4C35E6D2-8ABD-4DC2-BB2F-F15FA5BF30DD@icloud.com>
2020-09-22  0:22       ` Henry Bent

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