From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] vi in v7
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:54:34 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008011748140.61909@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrQnwnT1HuUKN446Rg=WPKCEEKetjRstx3c44N08Dtzfg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, Warner Losh wrote:
> Weren't V5/6/7/etc distributed as bootable tapes? Set the switch
> register to point to the tape instead of the disk...
>
> Yes. They were. We have V6 and V7 tapes (and a V5 disk image). Likely
> earlier versions likely did too. What I'd meant was that 2.8BSD is the
> first 2BSD that had a bootable tape.
Ah, my mistake.
I think the loader also read just the first block, so woe betide you if
you used a labelled tape...
If I recall, VOL1, HDR1, etc.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-01 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
2020-07-26 0:16 Noel Chiappa
2020-07-26 0:39 ` Adam Thornton
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