From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] vi in v7
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 08:33:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfrTTsjz7MB_ntCQHZwsBpZJc-8c8cNEPyfR7nmXcJPkiw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2P_LSN_ZHuA9ZOmF=cKeUmUSZU+qs-Xf9mxfLNzOhcjow@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 6:16 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> Dave those are ANSI tape labels. Unix does not use them DEC did
> although was inconsistent with the use particularly WRT HDR2 records. Tom
> Quarles (of spice 3 fame) wrote probably the best version for Unix to deal
> with them. I believe I gave a copy but it will be in BSD 4.1 maybe 4.2
> compiler syntax. I'll ask him if he ever updated it. Clem
>
How is that related to ansitar.c?
Warner
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:55 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>> > Weren't V5/6/7/etc distributed as bootable tapes? Set the switch
>> > register to point to the tape instead of the disk...
>> >
>> > Yes. They were. We have V6 and V7 tapes (and a V5 disk image). Likely
>> > earlier versions likely did too. What I'd meant was that 2.8BSD is the
>> > first 2BSD that had a bootable tape.
>>
>> Ah, my mistake.
>>
>> I think the loader also read just the first block, so woe betide you if
>> you used a labelled tape...
>>
>> If I recall, VOL1, HDR1, etc.
>>
>> -- Dave
>
> --
> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-01 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-25 14:34 Will Senn
2020-07-25 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-25 15:36 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-26 0:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-26 0:13 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-01 7:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-01 12:15 ` Clem Cole
2020-08-01 14:33 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2020-08-01 15:41 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26 0:41 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26 0:16 Noel Chiappa
2020-07-26 0:39 ` Adam Thornton
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