[Simh] Earlyish UNIX for the VAX

[Mark Wickens]

Many thanks.

On Fri, 8 May 2020, 14:38 Clem Cole, <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> Please go to: The Unix Heritage Society <https://www.tuhs.org/>  (*a.k.a.*
> TUHS) and look in the Unix Archives.
> All of the sources you are interested in are there, some was raw tapes,
> other as distribution kits.
> It is organized by the organization that released the distribution.  You
> will find most everything there from Unix V0 to 10th Edition including
> 32V.  We are missing something like MERT and a few of the intermediate
> releases such as UNIX/TS; but I think you will find it useful and fairly
> complete.  We often have the documentation (such as Mini-UNIX's creator,
> Heinz Lacklama donated the the original docs [and all his papers], but he
> lacks the original distribution tape).
>
> Note the TUHS mailing list is very active with many of us original folks
> that were there at the time (and are still with us)
> contributing, correcting history when it sometimes deviates from reality to
> legend.  Note there is a companion mailing list (also pretty active) called
> COFF - Computer Old F*ts Followers which is supposed to take up the
> discussion when it deviates from UNIX specifically.
>
> Have fun...
> Clem
>
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 4:26 AM <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I’ve been doing a little research on versions of UNIX for the VAX
>> architecture.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does this software survive – I appreciate if it was a Bell Labs release
>> then it may never have seen the light of day?
>>
>> Are there any other surviving editions of UNIX that have been
>> successfully resurrected using SIMH?
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks, Mark.
>>
>> M0NOM <https://www.qrz.com/db/M0NOM/P>
>>
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