From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: milov@uwlax.edu (Milo Velimirovic) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:20:06 -0500 Subject: [pups] NEXTSTEP etc. [was: Bob's emulator and ultrix] References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: [snip] > > On 4/18/06, Warren Toomey wrote: >> [ Please reply to Bill if you can, I don't know if he's on >> the list ] >> >> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Cunningham >> ----- >> >> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:32:27 -0400 >> From: "Bill Cunningham" >> Subject: Bob's emulator and ultrix >> To: >> >> I can't get the sim 2.3d to boot ultrix 3.1 or xenix or anyother >> boot tapes >> in the uhs's archive. I have compiled the pdp11 emulator with >> gcc-3.4.6. I >> am also interested in the OS Tim Berners-Lee used to write his first >> browser. VMS on a VAX machine I have read. Is there anything like >> this in >> the archive? A VAX emulator and VMS OS? > > Tim Berners-Lee developed what became the WWW, server and browser, on > a NeXT computer running the NeXTstep OS. There is not a whole lot of > public knowledge about the internals of the NeXT hardware, which makes > it difficult to write an emulator for it. > > There is a slowly progressing effort to port NetBSD to NeXT hardware. > Also, the last few releases of NeXTstep and OpenStep would run either > on NeXT hardware or selected x86 hardware. NEXTSTEP 3.3 & OpenStep run on NeXT's m68k, x86, and on HP/Apollo 700 series HPPA workstations and on several SUN SPARCstation models. I own an HP735 that runs NS3.3 quite nicely. > Somewhere there is a > writeup covering the subject of running OpenStep on the VMware virtual > machine. This is a close but not quite the same thing article: http://iamleeg.blogspot.com/2006/04/so-heres-full-system-networking- is.html > > None of this is VAX, nor is it any other hardware covered by SimH. > > carl > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego > clowenst at ucsd.edu > > > ------------------------------ -- Milo Velimirović Unix Computer Network Administrator 608-785-6618 Office ITS Network Services 608-386-2817 Cell University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W