From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:50:55 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] New PDF version of Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 In the SimH PDP-11/45 and 11/70 Emulators In-Reply-To: References: <00712ca5-edd5-c198-4628-4bcd71669a64@gmail.com> Message-ID: Oh, ok. I tested it on Linux Mint 18.2, just now and it works fine. No tweaks needed. I recommend installing simh from source vs sudo apt-get install simh because there have been some enhancements since 3.8.1... particularly in the 4.0-0 Beta line... If you have a c compiler and git, just: $ git clone https://github.com/simh/simh $ cd simh $ make clean $ make pdp11 $ cp BIN/pdp11 ~/bin $ pdp11 PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Beta        git commit id: 247bd8d5 sim> Later, Will On 10/12/2017 02:11 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: > Hello! > I was thinking of Linux, since it and FreeBSD, and even NetBSD, are > next door neighbors of a sort. But at least it is a start. Thank you! > ----- > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Will Senn wrote: >> Gregg, >> >> I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but as mentioned in the >> note, I tested the instructions on Mac OS X Mavericks through MacOS High >> Sierra as well as multiple flavors of FreeBSD 10-11. Your comment sparked my >> interest in trying it out on Windows (maybe that's the OS non-grata?), so I >> tested it there as well. Seems to work, although I found the experience >> distasteful in the extreme . The number of tools missing on that OS are mind >> boggling... but I did get it working. In full disclosure, I couldn't bring >> myself to run it on metal. I just ran the Windows 8.1 Enterprise >> environment in a VM running on Linux Mint 18.2 (a debian/ubuntu variant). >> >> Just so you know, I have to have a *nix like set of tools on any OS I use, >> these days, or I feel like my left arm is missing, so the minimal workable >> set for me in this case was Git with unix tools (a version on MinGW, I >> think). I used to use Cygwin, but it's so bloated it's sickening and the >> installer is unfriendly to say the least (I would be satisfied with a button >> that said "reasonable set of unix tools", but the minimal selection is >> minimalist, not reasonable). Anyhow, Git with unix tools will get you a bash >> shell that has an almost reasonable set of tools. Enough the do the work >> required for this note anyway. SimH has binaries for windows to download. I >> picked the one that was created 29 days ago, unzipped it, put it on the path >> and it just worked. Quite a few steps in the prep required minor tweakage >> (no vi, no emacs - see what I mean about minimal not being reasonable, but >> notepad++ worked ok; no gunzip, but gzip -d < zipfile > unzipped worked, >> perl script didn't seem to work right, not sure what that's about - may look >> into it later, since I wrote it, but in the meantime I just downloaded the >> tap file from the archive and it worked fine)... >> >> Bottom line for windows, download the tap file from the archive, create two >> ini files, one for first boot, the other for normal boot and the rest of the >> instructions work verbatim. >> >> I haven't bothered with linux, just cuz I somehow didn't, but I gather it >> will probably work about as well as on the BSD's. >> >> Is that what you were asking, or something more subtle? >> >> Regards, >> Will >> >> On 10/12/17 12:32 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: >>> Hello! >>> (If this is seen twice, then that's because Google complained that the >>> mangle list wasn't accepting messages.) >>> Will, has this been idea been tested on any of the platforms that the >>> emulator runs on? (Not going to mention one in particular by name >>> since it's sore spot around here.) >>> ----- >>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com >>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Will Senn wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I just finished creating an updated PDF version of a blog post I did a >>>> couple of years back, describing how to install and use Unix v7 in SimH. >>>> It's updated for 2017 and MacOS High Sierra 10.13. I started the update >>>> because I was wanting to do some research in v7 and thought it would be >>>> good >>>> to have a current set of instructions but really because I was interested >>>> in >>>> learning a bit about LaTeX and creating prettier, more useful documents. >>>> The >>>> notes still work fine as originally written, but I organized things a >>>> little >>>> differently and tweaked some of the language. I thought somebody else >>>> might >>>> like having a PDF version around so I uploaded the result, call it >>>> revision >>>> 1.1, and made it publicly accessible (the blog still needs updating, >>>> somebody oughta do something about link impermanence, but that's all for >>>> another day). Feel free to comment or complain. I added a section in >>>> honor >>>> of dmr at one commenter's suggestion. Here's the link: >>>> >>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1_Jn6Hlzym-Zmx1TjR3TENDQTA >>>> >>>> Later, >>>> >>>> Will >>>> >>>> -- >>>> GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF >>>> >>>> >> -- >> GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF >>