From: Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Unix install & "standalone" package
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 11:57:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CF5B43BE-A199-4581-A4E5-A0DF076E408A@planet.nl> (raw)
Recently, I was looking into the “Das U-Boot” boot loader package. Summarised with great simplification, u-boot bundles device drivers, file systems, commands and a Bourne-like shell into a standalone package. Normally it auto-runs a script that brings up a system, but when used in interactive mode it allows a great deal of poking around.
It made me think of the “standalone” set of programs for installing early Unix. On 16-bit understandably each basic command has to be a separate standalone program, but after the shift to 32-bit bundling more functionality in a single binary would have become possible.
How did the Unix “standalone” package evolve in the 80’s, both in the research and BSD lineages? Is there any retrospective paper about that? Or is it a case of “Use the source, Luke”?
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-04 9:57 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS [this message]
2023-09-04 14:53 ` [TUHS] " emanuel stiebler
2023-09-04 17:07 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 18:21 ` Dan Cross
2023-09-05 11:15 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-09-05 14:15 ` Clem Cole
2023-09-05 17:03 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-04 14:44 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
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