[Simh] AT&T 3B2 Emulator

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Tue Nov 14 11:51:06 EST 2017


I think they have SysVR2 for VAX too, I have a patched build of that now ;)

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> On Nov 13, 2017, at 19:07, Bob Radvanovsky <rsradvan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I found this web site that contains all sorts of goodness...
> 
> https://archive.org/details/ATTUNIXSystemVRelease4Version2
> 
> AND...there's a version of AT&T UNIX System III for VAX (which is what I had used years ago).  BTW, at the bottom is a user manual for this release of UNIX...  ;)
> 
> -rad
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Warren Young <tangentsoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Seth Morabito <web at loomcom.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> After several years in the making and lots and lots of reverse
>>> engineering, I'm happy to announce that the AT&T 3B2/400 emulator now
>>> boots and runs multi-user SVR3 UNIX.
>> 
>> Awesome!
>>  
>>> For more information, please see:
>>> 
>>>     https://loomcom.com/3b2/emulator/
>>> 
>>> Corrections, comments, and feeback are welcome!
>>  
>> You asked for it. :)
>> This version of Unix hasn't ever been liberally-licensed, has it? The last one I recall being so released was UNIX V7.
>> "SVR3 is very primitive." Naaah. It's almost modern. UNIX V5 is primitive, and OS/8 for the PDP-8 is very primitive. "Modern" would be 4.3BSD or newer. :)
>> "Don't even expect man pages." That must be a matter of packaging. The famous "ancient Unix V6" PDP-11 distribution contains man pages.
>> "...you have to type the pound / hash symbol (#). Really." That must be a default stty setting issue. I used 3B1s briefly back in the day, and I don't recall any gymnastics required to delete a character. (I have a dead 3B1 mainboard nailed to the wall. I call it a 3B0. ;) )
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