[Simh] Fwd: V6 on PDP-11 and 4.0BSD on Vax - automated installs now available

[Paul Galbraith]

Apologies, this was intended for the wider group:

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From: Paul Galbraith <paul.d.galbraith at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 16:22
Subject: Re: [Simh] V6 on PDP-11 and 4.0BSD on Vax - automated installs now
available
To: Tom Perrine <tom.perrine at gmail.com>


This sounds great, I'll have to take a look.  I've recently been smitten
with Lars' PDP-10 ITS system build on github, and I'm wrestling with trying
to provide a more easily accessible version for Windows users by providing
turnkey chocolatey (https://www.chocolatey.org) packages, but now you've
got me wondering if something like this might be a better approach.  Did
you consider Docker at all?

On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 13:02, Tom Perrine <tom.perrine at gmail.com> wrote:

> SIMH wizards,
>
> Thanks to your help, I've finished automating the V6/PDP-11 and
> 4.0BSD/Vax780 in GCP installations.
>
> https://github.com/tomperrine/unix-v6-pdp11-simh-gcp
>
> https://github.com/tomperrine/unix-40bsd-vax-simh-gcp
>
> Anyone with a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account can now play with these
> two seminal operating systems (for free) without having to deep dive into
> GCP or SIMH.
>
> By default, both installations will install into "f1-micro" instances
> which are essentially "free", as Google will give you a credit each month
> equal to the cost of running an f1 7x24 for 4 weeks.
>
> Hopefully this will make it easier for a new generation of users to learn
> about and understand these operating systems that directly led to the
> Internet as we know it.
>
> My next stop is 4.2 BSD in GCP. After that, I will be trying to bring up
> two Orange Book A1 security kernels - KSOS-11 and KSOS-32. These two secure
> operating systems require PWB (or v7) and 4.2 BSD as bootstraps to running
> systems.
>
> Thanks for the assistance you all provided as I learned SIMH.
>
> --tep
>
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