[TUHS] SVR 3.2

[TUHS] SVR 3.2

[Tom Manos]

Hi all,

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask...

I started my home UNIX hobby in the mid-1980's with Microport SVR2 on Intel
286. With a couple of modems I started a public access UNIX system in
Hampton Roads, VA.

That system graduated to SVR3.0, 3.1, 3.2 on 386, and finally 4.2 with 4
modems running on an AST 4-port card on 486. That was about 1992 when I
started an ISP using SVR4.2. That ISP, also in Hampton Roads, grew quite
large. We were in 100 cities and partnered with newspapers and managed
their content on the brand new web. By then we had graduated to large Alpha
systems and Sun Enterprise.

Now I'm all grown up and and experiencing a 2nd childhood. I run SVR4.2MP
here on a real dual processor Pentium system, but I'd like to get back to
SVR3.2 on period hardware, and later to r2.

My problem is I don't have a copy and don't know where to find one. Do any
of you happen to have a diskette (or disk image) set you can part with?
Ideally I'd like a development system and networking. But I've always been
an optimist :)

I'm happy to pay reasonable fees.

Tom
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[TUHS] SVR 3.2

[Andreas Hein]

Hello Tom,

yeah, i have the same history. First operating system for my 286 was the Microport ATT  SVR2. I have original 5 1/4  media, the tree manuals (mostly printouts of the original UNIX Man pages beide Intel Assembler and bootloader) and images from the disks. But, as you remember, Microport V.2 had no networking (beside UUCP)

Still Interested ? Send me a email, I will prepare the images and find a way to deliver it to you (earliest tomorrow). And if someone know a way to Boot this images in a hypervirsor, this would help me. The current hypervisors are not able to emulate MFM disks and hercules graphics AFIK

Regards,
Andreas

Am 3. August 2017 00:46:23 MESZ schrieb Tom Manos <tom.manos at gmail.com>:
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask...
>
>I started my home UNIX hobby in the mid-1980's with Microport SVR2 on
>Intel
>286. With a couple of modems I started a public access UNIX system in
>Hampton Roads, VA.
>
>That system graduated to SVR3.0, 3.1, 3.2 on 386, and finally 4.2 with
>4
>modems running on an AST 4-port card on 486. That was about 1992 when I
>started an ISP using SVR4.2. That ISP, also in Hampton Roads, grew
>quite
>large. We were in 100 cities and partnered with newspapers and managed
>their content on the brand new web. By then we had graduated to large
>Alpha
>systems and Sun Enterprise.
>
>Now I'm all grown up and and experiencing a 2nd childhood. I run
>SVR4.2MP
>here on a real dual processor Pentium system, but I'd like to get back
>to
>SVR3.2 on period hardware, and later to r2.
>
>My problem is I don't have a copy and don't know where to find one. Do
>any
>of you happen to have a diskette (or disk image) set you can part with?
>Ideally I'd like a development system and networking. But I've always
>been
>an optimist :)
>
>I'm happy to pay reasonable fees.
>
>Tom
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[TUHS] SVR 3.2

[Michael Huff]

I'm not sure how well it works, but there's always pcem: 
http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ ...it can emulate both a 286, and MFM disks; 
though I'm not sure how accurate that emulation is.


On 08/02/2017 03:02 PM, Andreas Hein wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> yeah, i have the same history. First operating system for my 286 was 
> the Microport ATT SVR2. I have original 5 1/4 media, the tree manuals 
> (mostly printouts of the original UNIX Man pages beide Intel Assembler 
> and bootloader) and images from the disks. But, as you remember, 
> Microport V.2 had no networking (beside UUCP)
>
> Still Interested ? Send me a email, I will prepare the images and find 
> a way to deliver it to you (earliest tomorrow). And if someone know a 
> way to Boot this images in a hypervirsor, this would help me. The 
> current hypervisors are not able to emulate MFM disks and hercules 
> graphics AFIK
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
> Am 3. August 2017 00:46:23 MESZ schrieb Tom Manos <tom.manos at gmail.com>:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask...
>
>     I started my home UNIX hobby in the mid-1980's with Microport SVR2
>     on Intel 286. With a couple of modems I started a public access
>     UNIX system in Hampton Roads, VA.
>
>     That system graduated to SVR3.0, 3.1, 3.2 on 386, and finally 4.2
>     with 4 modems running on an AST 4-port card on 486. That was about
>     1992 when I started an ISP using SVR4.2. That ISP, also in Hampton
>     Roads, grew quite large. We were in 100 cities and partnered with
>     newspapers and managed their content on the brand new web. By then
>     we had graduated to large Alpha systems and Sun Enterprise.
>
>     Now I'm all grown up and and experiencing a 2nd childhood. I run
>     SVR4.2MP here on a real dual processor Pentium system, but I'd
>     like to get back to SVR3.2 on period hardware, and later to r2.
>
>     My problem is I don't have a copy and don't know where to find
>     one. Do any of you happen to have a diskette (or disk image) set
>     you can part with? Ideally I'd like a development system and
>     networking. But I've always been an optimist :)
>
>     I'm happy to pay reasonable fees.
>
>     Tom
>

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[TUHS] SVR 3.2

[Warner Losh]

mame/mess also offers emulation of early x86 computers as well.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame

Warner

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Michael Huff <mphuff at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure how well it works, but there's always pcem:
> http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ ...it can emulate both a 286, and MFM disks;
> though I'm not sure how accurate that emulation is.
>
> On 08/02/2017 03:02 PM, Andreas Hein wrote:
>
> Hello Tom,
>
> yeah, i have the same history. First operating system for my 286 was the
> Microport ATT SVR2. I have original 5 1/4 media, the tree manuals (mostly
> printouts of the original UNIX Man pages beide Intel Assembler and
> bootloader) and images from the disks. But, as you remember, Microport V.2
> had no networking (beside UUCP)
>
> Still Interested ? Send me a email, I will prepare the images and find a
> way to deliver it to you (earliest tomorrow). And if someone know a way to
> Boot this images in a hypervirsor, this would help me. The current
> hypervisors are not able to emulate MFM disks and hercules graphics AFIK
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
> Am 3. August 2017 00:46:23 MESZ schrieb Tom Manos <tom.manos at gmail.com>
> <tom.manos at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask...
>>
>> I started my home UNIX hobby in the mid-1980's with Microport SVR2 on
>> Intel 286. With a couple of modems I started a public access UNIX system in
>> Hampton Roads, VA.
>>
>> That system graduated to SVR3.0, 3.1, 3.2 on 386, and finally 4.2 with 4
>> modems running on an AST 4-port card on 486. That was about 1992 when I
>> started an ISP using SVR4.2. That ISP, also in Hampton Roads, grew quite
>> large. We were in 100 cities and partnered with newspapers and managed
>> their content on the brand new web. By then we had graduated to large Alpha
>> systems and Sun Enterprise.
>>
>> Now I'm all grown up and and experiencing a 2nd childhood. I run SVR4.2MP
>> here on a real dual processor Pentium system, but I'd like to get back to
>> SVR3.2 on period hardware, and later to r2.
>>
>> My problem is I don't have a copy and don't know where to find one. Do
>> any of you happen to have a diskette (or disk image) set you can part with?
>> Ideally I'd like a development system and networking. But I've always been
>> an optimist :)
>>
>> I'm happy to pay reasonable fees.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
>
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[TUHS] SVR 3.2

[Grant Taylor]

On 08/02/2017 05:02 PM, Andreas Hein wrote:
> And if someone know a way to Boot this images in a hypervirsor, this 
> would help me. The current hypervisors are not able to emulate MFM disks
> and hercules graphics AFIK

Have you looked at Bochs?

I managed to get AIX 1.3 running in it and it was looking for IBM PS/2
hardware.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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[TUHS] SVR 3.2

[Andreas Hein]

Thanks, will try bochs. Seems to be able to handle MFM and Protected-Mode (In Intel 286).

PCem was not that successful. Got double-panic right after kernel initialisation. Virtualbox was able to Boot kernel and run forward into install routine, but then stalled at first attempt of accessing the emulated HDD

KR,
Andreas


>Have you looked at Bochs?
>
>I managed to get AIX 1.3 running in it and it was looking for IBM PS/2
>hardware.