[TUHS] Re: V9 Bits (was On computerese)

[TUHS] Re: V9 Bits (was On computerese)

[segaloco via TUHS]

On Monday, September 16th, 2024 at 6:28 PM, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:

> ...
> I also have v9 on a Sun in TME
> ...
> 
> -Henry
>

V9 you say...does your setup happen to have the on-line manpages by any chance?  I don't think a surviving copy is in the TUHS archive.  V9 is a tad bit fragmentary in the archive at present from what I can tell, it may be worth seeing if anything you have fills in blanks.

- Matt G.

[TUHS] Re: V9 Bits (was On computerese)

[Henry Bent]

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On Mon, 16 Sept 2024 at 22:42, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Monday, September 16th, 2024 at 6:28 PM, Henry Bent <
> henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > I also have v9 on a Sun in TME
> > ...
> >
> > -Henry
> >
>
> V9 you say...does your setup happen to have the on-line manpages by any
> chance?  I don't think a surviving copy is in the TUHS archive.  V9 is a
> tad bit fragmentary in the archive at present from what I can tell, it may
> be worth seeing if anything you have fills in blanks.
>
>
Just fired it up.  The reason I put it aside was that the ie driver was set
to hard panic every time it received a packet larger than 1500 bytes, and
the workaround appeared straightforward but as someone from a BSD
background it was not at all clear to me how to rebuild a kernel.  I have
some time now that I can set aside to teach myself how that build system
works, so I'm planning to revisit it soon.

Anyhow.... it does not appear to have any manpages.  My recollection is
that the distribution was just source, and the manpages were not a part of
that source.  It required a bootstrap from SunOS to get a working system; I
don't think I have anything that is not in the TUHS archives.

-Henry

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[TUHS] Re: V9 Bits (was On computerese)

[arnold]

segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:

> V9 you say...does your setup happen to have the on-line manpages by
> any chance?  I don't think a surviving copy is in the TUHS archive.
> V9 is a tad bit fragmentary in the archive at present from what I can
> tell, it may be worth seeing if anything you have fills in blanks.

I have real Bell Labs V8 and V9 manuals. The former is comb-bound like
the System III manual, and was a gift obtained via BWK. I paid $50
for the latter; I remember exhchanging email with Doug about getting
it. He said something like "I have to check if we can sell one to you." :-)
This was circa 1993, I don't remember exactly.

The V9 manual is perfect bound.  I'd offer it for scanning, except
that that would mean destroying the binding, which I'm very loath
to do.

Arnold

[TUHS] Re: V9 Bits (was On computerese)

[Steve Nickolas]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

> segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> V9 you say...does your setup happen to have the on-line manpages by
>> any chance?  I don't think a surviving copy is in the TUHS archive.
>> V9 is a tad bit fragmentary in the archive at present from what I can
>> tell, it may be worth seeing if anything you have fills in blanks.
>
> I have real Bell Labs V8 and V9 manuals. The former is comb-bound like
> the System III manual, and was a gift obtained via BWK. I paid $50
> for the latter; I remember exhchanging email with Doug about getting
> it. He said something like "I have to check if we can sell one to you." :-)
> This was circa 1993, I don't remember exactly.
>
> The V9 manual is perfect bound.  I'd offer it for scanning, except
> that that would mean destroying the binding, which I'm very loath
> to do.
>
> Arnold

A big reason why I hate perfect-bound books.

Most of the books, though, I have that _aren't_ perfect-bound are 
religious in nature.

-uso.