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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] vi in v7
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 17:39:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic1ZR3cGha7=HfywSv8-1X99Ea4_198Tqa5SZ=FYx3Yg4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200726001655.107AF18C0B8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

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I wasn't able to build vi for the v7 image easily available for simh, but
Webb Miller's 's' editor wasn't too tough (it has similar keybindings), and
the version with the minor tweaks needed for it is up at:
https://github.com/athornton/s

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 5:18 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > From: Dave Horsfall
>
>     > Weren't V5/6/7/etc distributed as bootable tapes?  Set the switch
> register
>     > to point to the tape instead of the disk...
>
> Yes. See here:
>
>   https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_UNIX_Sixth_Edition
>   https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Unix_Seventh_Edition
>
> for the details of how it works.
>
>     Noel
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-26  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-26  0:16 Noel Chiappa
2020-07-26  0:39 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
2020-08-01 15:41               ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26  0:41       ` Clem Cole

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