From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erin@coffee.corliss.net (Erin W. Corliss) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 19:41:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: 2.11BSD Message-ID: I know you've all been on the edge of your seats waiting for this, but... I finally got my PDP-11/73 working, using a wyse terminal instead of my PC -- for some reason neither of the serial ports were sending on the PC (but then again, I boughtthe motherboard in an alley in korea three years ago)... Anyway, it boots up with RSTS/E version 9, which is OK in it's own little way, I guess, but I'd rather be running Unix on it. So where can I download the binaries for 2.11BSD? -- Erin Corliss Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA02429 for pups-liszt; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:03:53 +1100 (EST) Received: from timaxp.trailing-edge.com (trailing-edge.wdn.com [198.232.144.27]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA02424 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:03:42 +1100 (EST) Received: by timaxp.trailing-edge.com for PUPS at MINNIE.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 23:03:36 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 23:03:36 -0500 From: Tim Shoppa To: PUPS at MINNIE.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU Message-Id: <981225230336.206000db at trailing-edge.com> Subject: Re: 2.11BSD Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk >I know you've all been on the edge of your seats waiting for this, but... > >I finally got my PDP-11/73 working, using a wyse terminal instead of my PC >-- for some reason neither of the serial ports were sending on the PC (but >then again, I boughtthe motherboard in an alley in korea three years >ago)... There are at least two different standards for the ribbon-cable-to-D-sub adapters, and of course it's guaranteed that you'll use the wront type :-). > Anyway, it boots up with RSTS/E version 9, which is OK in it's > own little way, I guess, but I'd rather be running Unix on it. > So where can I download the binaries for 2.11BSD? Easiest way is for you to tell us what sort of load media you can use and have someone write an install tape for you. Do you have a TK50 or other tape drive on the system? -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa at trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927 Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA03169 for pups-liszt; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:31:23 +1100 (EST) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA03164 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:31:17 +1100 (EST) Received: (from wkt at localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA20488; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:32:47 +1100 (EST) From: Warren Toomey Message-Id: <199812261032.VAA20488 at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Subject: Re: 2.11BSD (but no src license) To: grog at lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:32:47 +1100 (EST) Cc: erin at coffee.corliss.net In-Reply-To: <19981226180625.S12346 at freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 26, 98 06:06:25 pm" Reply-To: wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Greg Lehey: > On Friday, 25 December 1998 at 23:09:48 -0800, Erin W. Corliss wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Do you have an Ancient UNIX license? I don't see you in our list. > >> You'll need one before we can give you a copy of the software. > > > > Nope. I have a licensed copy of RSTS/E I could trade, though... 8^) No, > > actually, I think I found another source for it, but thanks for the > > concern. > > PUPS is very glad to have been able to have created the possibility of > legally using these old versions of UNIX. Please don't make things > difficult by abusing somebody's cooperation. You can get it legally; > see http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/getlicense.html for more details. > > Greg What Greg says is true: we can't give you access to any UNIX source code unless you have a UNIX source license from SCO. However.... I should ask Dion at SCO if we could distribute binary-only distributions of 2.x BSD without a license. After all, freely distributable binary-only distributions for v5, v6, v7 and Venix (System III-ish) exist. Just a thought, but for now you do need a source license. Cheers, Warren