From wes.parish at paradise.net.nz Sat Aug 2 22:20:24 2003 From: wes.parish at paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:20:24 +1200 Subject: [pups] Cheriton, Zed, and Thoth Message-ID: <200308030020.25263.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> I came across his book a few days ago in the Computer Science section of the University of Canterbury (NZ) Library. Does anyone know what happened to it? Where it disappeared to, etc? Zed, for example, is another BCPL derivative, so I feel right at home with it. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." From wes.parish at paradise.net.nz Sat Aug 2 22:20:24 2003 From: wes.parish at paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:20:24 +1200 Subject: [TUHS] Cheriton, Zed, and Thoth Message-ID: <200308030020.25263.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> I came across his book a few days ago in the Computer Science section of the University of Canterbury (NZ) Library. Does anyone know what happened to it? Where it disappeared to, etc? Zed, for example, is another BCPL derivative, so I feel right at home with it. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." From bwc at coraid.com Sat Aug 2 23:05:36 2003 From: bwc at coraid.com (bwc at coraid.com) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 09:05:36 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] speaking of Zed... Message-ID: More than 20 years ago I worked on a CDC minicomputer the Cyber 18/30. I heard about an operating system for it that used Zed. Does anyone know about it? Brantley From aek at spies.com Sun Aug 3 11:46:11 2003 From: aek at spies.com (Al Kossow) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:46:11 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cheriton, Zed, and Thoth Message-ID: <200308030146.h731kBkY023828@spies.com> I came across his book a few days ago in the Computer Science section of the University of Canterbury (NZ) Library. Does anyone know what happened to it? Where it disappeared to, etc? -- "The Thoth System: Multi-Process Stucturing and Portability" Prof Cheriton has been on the faculty of Stanford University since the early 80's. The book was derived from his PhD thesis at the University of Waterloo. I emailed him about a year ago asking exactly this question, since I was looking for software to run on a TI990 minicomputer, and it's gone.. He didn't really want to even talk much about it. The Stanford V-System is the closest descendent of Thoth. Even that may be difficult to find. From JStevens at prcnet.com Sat Aug 9 08:14:56 2003 From: JStevens at prcnet.com (JStevens at prcnet.com) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:14:56 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] v6on286 Message-ID: <960567643238154CB8EC909ED1138931086B8703@pagg1exch2> I just downloaded the source, and after much scrounging around I found my old Borland 3.1 compiler.. I built the un.exe, and it does the same thing.. blank screen, and off to nowhere... so I started to add some printf's... Such as this bit in ken\main.c craftproc(); printf("main.c craftproc()\n"); initdevices(); printf("main.c initdevices()\n"); cinit(); printf("main.c cinit()\n"); binit(); printf("main.c binit()\n"); and I modified dmr\cov.c initvid() { // if (video==1) // (gdt_beg+6)->base_l =0; outbyte (VIDCA,VIDCSTART); outbyte (VIDCD,0); outbyte (VIDCA,VIDCEND); outbyte (VIDCD,14); outbyte (VIDCA,VIDADDRL); outbyte (VIDCD,0); outbyte (VIDCA,VIDADDRH); outbyte (VIDCD,0); // clear_screen(vd_attr); cosilence(); } so I could see some more.. it seems to initialize ok under virtual PC.. I think the next thing is to dig for some more info on the 1st task.. My Lyons book is somewhere as I want to create a dummy task that prints "a", and a second one that prints "b", so I can test the scheduler and get "abababababba" or something like that.. Another thing I noticed after trying to build the userland is that crt0.asm is missing.. I'm too much of a newbie to construct that though.. Anyways I'll try to get further this weekend either with my Lyons book, or with v6 on simh. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JStevens at prcnet.com Tue Aug 12 04:38:59 2003 From: JStevens at prcnet.com (JStevens at prcnet.com) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:38:59 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] v6on286 Message-ID: <960567643238154CB8EC909ED1138931086B8711@pagg1exch2> FYI the reason why it locks is the 286 multi-tasking is busted.. if you comment out the iret in ken/slp.c it goes further, but it's busted none the less... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From masouds at stormbird.org Thu Aug 28 04:53:21 2003 From: masouds at stormbird.org (masouds at stormbird.org) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:53:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] V7 on i386? Message-ID: <40589.216.191.248.101.1062010401.squirrel@www.stormbird.org> Hello, I was looking through mailing list archives for any attempts of porting UNIX V7 to i386. I saw a discussion of it at http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2002-January/000071.html where Some brave soul tries to port V6 to i386; Does anyone know whether or not anything came out of it? cheers, Masoud PS: needless to say, I've recently joined this mailing list. From macbiesz at optonline.net Thu Aug 28 12:47:44 2003 From: macbiesz at optonline.net (Maciek Bieszczad) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:47:44 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] V7 on i386? In-Reply-To: <40589.216.191.248.101.1062010401.squirrel@www.stormbird.org> Message-ID: <000001c36d0e$c24a12f0$03fea8c0@maciek> http://www.southern-storm.com.au/v7upgrade.html Quote from the site: "This site contains a copy of the Version 7 Unix sources, upgraded to conform with modern C conventions." There's also V6on286, see: ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Other/V6on286/. Refer to the previous "v6on286" posts this month. -- Maciek (macbiesz at optonline.net) -----Original Message----- From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of masouds at stormbird.org Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:53 PM To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org Subject: [TUHS] V7 on i386? Hello, I was looking through mailing list archives for any attempts of porting UNIX V7 to i386. I saw a discussion of it at http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2002-January/000071.html where Some brave soul tries to port V6 to i386; Does anyone know whether or not anything came out of it? cheers, Masoud PS: needless to say, I've recently joined this mailing list.