[Simh] Earlyish UNIX for the VAX

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 8 May 2020 09:26:10 +0100
<mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

> I've been doing a little research on versions of UNIX for the VAX
> architecture.
> 
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> In the SIMH Software Kits archive there is 4.3-Quasijarus BSD for the
> VAX.
> 
> I also noted the Bell Labs paper here:
> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherports/32v.pdf which I think
> refers to UNIX 32V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX/32V.
> 
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> 
> Does this software survive - I appreciate if it was a Bell Labs
> release then it may never have seen the light of day?

We ran UNIX on the PDP-11 45 years ago (well, it will be 45 years in
about 6 weeks).

We moved on to a VAX, and in the early days I'm pretty sure we ran 32V
(as a university). We moved to 4.0BSD as soon as it became available.