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

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

Maybe you could be interested at taking a look at this.


https://github.com/jguillaumes/dockersimh


Jordi Guillaumes Pons


> El 19 gen 2020, a les 3:39, Tom Perrine <tom.perrine at gmail.com> va escriure:
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> 
> I had a few goals for this: get v6 running, learn about SIMH, learn about GCP and set it up so that anyone could use it easily, no matter what OS they use for their "home" system.
> 
> I think that I got 3.5 of the 4 - basically if you are running Windows, you'd need to spin up a Linux host, either in a VM or in the cloud or even as a Raspberry Pi. Other than that, I achieved the goals of V6, SIMH and GCP.
> 
> I'm not a container person (yet), I'm rather old school, as my first UNIX was PWB. I'm interested in containers, so I might revisit this, or I might try to get 4.2BSD running in a container.
> 
> These are all steps towards the actual end goal, which is running the A1 candidate security kernels KSOS-11 and KSOS-32. Those are projects that I worked on and I have access to the source code. But they aren't self hosted, needing PWB and 4.2BSD for the system generation using custom Modula and Modula-2 compilers.
> 
> Thanks for the Docker suggestion. It's a way that I hadn't considered, and it would have some advantages over what I've done so far. Honestly, getting the proper commands injected into SIMH and into the running UNIX systems was the hardest part.  There are some good cookbooks out there that I essentially automated.
> 
> Cheers,
> --tep
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 1:28 PM Paul Galbraith <paul.d.galbraith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apologies, this was intended for the wider group:
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> 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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