From cyrille.lefevre-lists at laposte.net Wed Jan 4 13:37:35 2012 From: cyrille.lefevre-lists at laposte.net (Cyrille Lefevre) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:37:35 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] hello, world In-Reply-To: References: <1324818619.20775.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <20111226211145.GA1335@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <4F03C97F.8060001@laposte.net> Le 27/12/2011 07:11, Adam a écrit : >> Yes, a good reminder on the power that programming brings us. A question >> though: what command would "bring the system down"? > > Great read. > Would just like to add that on some Unixes a simple command with no > args will bring a system down - killall. happy new year to everyone. that rememer the day where I was looking on IRIX killall manual in a window which say you could "killall some_process_by_name" and try it on a... solaris server in another window. the answer was fast : well, humm, where is my second window ? PS : solaris killall doesn't take args %-/ Regards, Cyrille Lefevre -- mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre-lists at laposte.net From vasco at icpnet.pl Fri Jan 6 20:42:54 2012 From: vasco at icpnet.pl (Andrzej Popielewicz) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:42:54 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] qemu and virtualbox Message-ID: <4F06D02E.5020705@icpnet.pl> Hi, For those who want to refresh old memories. Hans Bezemer has made big progress as far as performance of qemu is concerned. His specific experience concerns Coherent, but other old unixes could use it. Details can be found in comp.os.coherent news group http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.coherent/topics The older tuhs message can be mentioned : http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2008-July/001815.html I have also noticed , that Coherent boots well and is very fast in newest virtualbox 4.1.8, running in XP. Dell Optiplex 755 was used with Core 2 Duo. Details can be found in forums for "Other quests" http://www.virtualbox.org It suggests , that other old Unixes could benefit in new virtualbox. Regards Andrzej From madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com Sat Jan 7 01:05:19 2012 From: madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com (Michael Kerpan) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:05:19 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] qemu and virtualbox In-Reply-To: <4F06D02E.5020705@icpnet.pl> References: <4F06D02E.5020705@icpnet.pl> Message-ID: Very cool to see. I know that Xenix has recently started working on QEMU as well, so it would seem that there were some major improvements to legacy support recently. Mike From arnold at skeeve.com Sun Jan 8 21:42:54 2012 From: arnold at skeeve.com (arnold at skeeve.com) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 03:42:54 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] uunet ftp sources archive available Message-ID: <201201081142.q08Bgsow007933@freefriends.org> Hi All. I announceced this some years ago but it's been renewed, so I'll announce it again. In 2004 sometime I downloaded all the comp.sources stuff I could from uunet.uu.net, which was still making it available for anonymous ftp. I've made a tarball of it available from http://www.skeeve.com/Usenet.tar.bz2 Warren, if you don't have this in the TUHS archives, maybe you could add it? Thanks, Arnold From arnold at skeeve.com Fri Jan 20 06:34:20 2012 From: arnold at skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:34:20 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] awkcc source code available Message-ID: <201201192034.q0JKYKjJ003051@skeeve.com> Hi. I announced this in comp.lang.awk in December and tried to BCC the TUHS list but it didn't seem to happen. Here's the announcement I posted. Arnold ----------------------------------------------- From: arnold at skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk Subject: AWKCC source now available Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: [ BCC to TUHS list, Brian Kernighan & Chris Ramming ] awk 'BEGIN { print "Sherman, set the wayback machine for 1988" }' Hello All. This note is to announce that through the valiant efforts of Brian Kernighan, Alcatel-Lucent has been persuaded to make the source for awkcc available. It can be found at: https://open-innovation.alcatel-lucent.com/projects/awkcc You have to register (no cost) before being able to download, but it's easy. The license terms are at the site. It's a straightforward "for personal use" kind of license. For those who don't know, awkcc is an adaptation of Unix awk to translate nawk programs into C. It was originally implemented by Chris Ramming (then at Bell Labs, although no longer) circa 1988, and the source dist includes some doc that Chris wrote. Given how fast machines are these days, this program is mostly of historical interest. But it's nice to have this bit of Unix / awk history generally available. And, if you really need to turn an awk program into C, this may provide a starting point. Enjoy! -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 50 729-7545 D.N. Shimshon 99785 ISRAEL From grog at lemis.com Tue Jan 31 11:36:31 2012 From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:36:31 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] History of man pages Message-ID: <20120131013631.GB45125@dereel.lemis.com> I've received a link http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html claiming to be about man pages; in fact, it's a lot more than that, including the prehistory of troff. Interesting stuff. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wkt at tuhs.org Tue Jan 31 11:53:36 2012 From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:53:36 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] History of man pages In-Reply-To: <20120131013631.GB45125@dereel.lemis.com> References: <20120131013631.GB45125@dereel.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20120131015335.GA31880@minnie.tuhs.org> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:36:31PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I've received a link http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html claiming to > be about man pages; in fact, it's a lot more than that, including the > prehistory of troff. Interesting stuff. > > Greg Thanks Greg, yes a good read. Pity we've lost the PDP-11 asm version of roff from 1st/2nd Edition Unix. Warren From ron at ronnatalie.com Tue Jan 31 23:04:09 2012 From: ron at ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:04:09 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] History of man pages In-Reply-To: <20120131015335.GA31880@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20120131013631.GB45125@dereel.lemis.com> <20120131015335.GA31880@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <34F8DEFE-9667-4915-9A3F-703EE78C07E1@ronnatalie.com> Gosh, I'd forgotten about that. "Roff is the simplest of the text formatting programs but is utterly frozen." They finally dragged me off troff in the mid-90's. On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Warren Toomey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:36:31PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I've received a link http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html claiming to >> be about man pages; in fact, it's a lot more than that, including the >> prehistory of troff. Interesting stuff. >> >> Greg > > Thanks Greg, yes a good read. Pity we've lost the PDP-11 asm > version of roff from 1st/2nd Edition Unix. > Warren > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs