[Simh] Earlyish UNIX for the VAX

[Tom Perrine]

You can find build kits to run various UNIX flavors in GCP in my github
repositories.

I was working in a 4.2BSD build kit but didn't finish it., IIRC
https://github.com/tomperrine/unix-42bsd-vax-simh-gcp

There's also  4.0 BSD, V6 and V7
https://github.com/tomperrine/unix-40bsd-vax-simh-gcp
https://github.com/tomperrine/unix-v6-pdp11-simh-gcp
https://github.com/tomperrine/unix-v7-pdp11-simh-gcp

In these kits you will find references to various instructions,
source/install tapes, many from TUHS and other places. Should be pretty
easy to do a manual install from the directions I reference.

--tep




On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 6:48 AM Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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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