[TUHS] Re: Unix V8 Chaosnet, any takers?

[segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>]

This looks like it might be exactly what you're looking for:

http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8

Steps to start with a 4.1BSD base in simh and use that to ultimately produce a V8 system. I haven't audited these instructions myself, so YMMV, but I suspect someone wouldn't go through the hard work if this didn't do anything.

That said, your original posting mentions the PDP-11, but also "Berkeley Unix Nodes". For the latter, do you mean VAX? These instructions are for VAX too, I don't know whether V8 ran on PDP-11 or not, but if that's your intent, you may want to start with a 2.xBSD or V7 as a base instead.

- Matt G.

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, July 14th, 2022 at 12:36 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:


> segaloco wrote:
>
> > What sort of help are you looking for? I've got idle fingers in the
> > evenings lately, if you just need some code junkies to work on things
> > I'm happy to throw my hat in the ring.
>
>
> I'm mainly curious if the V8 code works. I haven't examined it at all,
> so I have no idea.
>
> For reference, I have a disk image with 4.1BSD patched and ready to
> run with SIMH here:
> http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/Chaotic-4.1BSD.tar.bz2
>
> I collected all the bits and pieces here and intended to make
> an expect script to install, patch, and build everything. I didn't
> the script but all the stuff should be here:
> https://github.com/Chaosnet/Chaosnet-for-4.1BSD