[lug] Old Unix, was Re: SGI Onyx 2

[Carl Wagner]

Or you could get UNIX v32, with source, for the VAX and run it under SIMH!
It would probably be similar (as lame as) PC/IX.

My notes about this:
    running unix 32v under Linux using simh
       get simh and build it (for some reason the Ubuntu package did not 
install the binaries).

       get the zip file from 
http://zazie.tom-yam.or.jp/starunix/starunix.tar.gz
       (He has some sparse instructions for getting it running under SIMH.)

I played with it for a little while, but it did not have vi and I didn't 
feel like learning ed.
It does have a compiler (K&R) and a lot of the standard utilities (but 
not vi, less, and many of the things I use).
But it boots in less than one second!!

Anyone know were to get an old version of vi that will compile under 32V?

Carl.


Jeffrey Haemer wrote:
> Maxwell,
>  
> Happy to loan out my disks.   I haven't looked at them in years, but 
> I'm sure they're five-and-a-quarter-inch floppies.  PC/IX will drive a 
> color monitor -- not a trivial statement, since most monitors back 
> then were B&W-only.
>  
>
>     You couldn't do a lot with Unix back then (no X, no 3D, no easy ipv4)
>     but you could do things.. right?
>
>
> Does "make a living" count?   And that was even before everyone 
> switched to nfs4. :-)
>
> INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation was the first commercial UNIX vendor 
> (1977).  Our first customer was a law firm that wanted our 
> word-processing facilities, which included the INed screen editor (a 
> technology invented, independently, by Edgar T. Irons and Bill Joy), 
> and a formatter (nroff/troff with Ted Dolotta's -mm macro package). 
>  The two, along with tools like a spell-checker (spell(1)) were 
> marketed as INtext.   Both Irons and Dolotta were VPs of ISC.
>
> We also had a block-mode terminal (INterm), designed by Charles 
> Minter, a student of Carver Mead's, which had a bunch of INed in 
> firmware, which let our systems support a lot more users doing 
> text-processing than they could have otherwise.
>
> Another early customer was Wells Fargo Bank, I suspect for the same 
> reason.
>
> Plus, Ken Thompson made it possible to run Spacewar if you got bored, 
> though I don't think our distro came with a port.
>
> By 1983, when I joined them, someone at IBM had decided to provide 
> Unix on their exciting, new powerhouse, the PC/XT -- the first 
> mass-market personal computer with a Winchester (hard) disk.    (I 
> think the XT was as powerful as a PDP-11/20, FWIW.)   
>
> They hired ISC to do the work, since they didn't have anyone who knew 
> anything about UNIX.  For that matter, neither did anyone else.
>
> As an aside, the same piece of hardware motivated a major change in 
> their flagship microcomputer operating system, PC-DOS (MS-DOS): 
> subdirectories (folders).  Ten megabytes was so much storage that it 
> no longer made sense to try to keep all your files in the same directory.
>
> -- 
> Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com 
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