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We ran a (highly modified-in-house) version of BSD2.9 at the USGS on a
big
11/70 and a couple of 11/34s -- later we got a q-niverter (let you
attach your unibus to q-bus) and ran everything on an 11/73 (hard to
keep the old 11/70 core memory and power supplies working). I got the
dists for 2.10, but never ran them before we ported everything to VMS
(seismic processing). 2.10 was pretty sophisticated -- they had
backported TCP/IP from BSD4.x (probably 4.2) for the VAX (I think that
was the history -- I don't think that 2.9 had networking). Hard to jam
all that into 16 bits.<br>
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---Thor<br>
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Dan Foster wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hot Diggety! Jason was rumored to have written:
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<pre wrap="">3bsd crashes on me too, but it doesn't kill simh...
Here is what I get:
Boot
: ra(0,0)vmunix
61856+61008+70120 start 0x4b4
Invalid SCB vector, PC: 80000676
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That's what I was getting when I was using the wrong SIMH binary
(MicroVAX instead of VAX 11/780) to boot 4.2BSD. So maybe it's something
about hardware access or setup that 3bsd tickles?
As a side note, it appears that someone got VMS 1.5 to boot under SIMH
earlier today.
2BSD should be possible with SIMH's PDP-11 emulation.
Notes: only 75 2BSD tapes were distributed, and the csh shell in 2BSD is
derived from the V6 Mashey shell; first BSD release to have csh and vi.
1BSD should also run under PDP-11 emulation if SIMH supports the
PDP-11/34; 30 free 1BSD tapes were given out and 35 tapes were sold.
Kirk McKusick has, courtesy of the CSRG at Berkeley, made a 4-CD set
available for sale, with every single version of BSD ever distributed,
including 1BSD, 2BSD, etc., for USD $99. I may look into getting it.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/">http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/</a>
-Dan
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