Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 18, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk > wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:41:51PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote: >> where as back then you made notes and paper printouts of your code >> that got archived in a back room. > > Until the University decided to throw it all out

Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:41:51PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote: > where as back then you made notes and paper printouts of your code > that got archived in a back room. Until the University decided to throw it all out to use the space for their new Department of Basket Weaving. fwiw, at one time

Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 02:56:36PM -0700, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > fsck off While we appreciate your efforts, you're only one guy, and I think you would have to agree that bits are vanishing faster than any one person can keep up. mcl

Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 3:29 PM SPC via cctalk wrote: > El vie., 18 oct. 2019 a las 23:26, Paul Koning via cctalk (< > cctalk@classiccmp.org>) escribió: > > > Neat. I remember seeing a PDP-7 at DECUS as part of a display honoring > > the early history of Unix. It wasn't running, unfortunately, bu

Re: Free to a good home: Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 workstation / server (Seattle, WA)

2019-10-18 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > for anyone who got this from Josh > Jim Stephens loaned me a huge stash of documentation that I've been uploading > to > http://bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/series60level6/ Any chance you have any DPS-8 or GCOS-8 documentation t

Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/18/19 2:41 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: > any kind of archving seems go into the *cloud* and vanish from > the face of the earth fsck off

Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread ben via cctalk
On 10/18/2019 1:36 PM, Thomas Dzubin via cctalk wrote: I don't have a PDP-7 to try it out on, but here it is: https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-earliest-unix-code-an-anniversary-source-code-release/ and https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/09/102785108-05-001-ac

Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread SPC via cctalk
El vie., 18 oct. 2019 a las 23:26, Paul Koning via cctalk (< cctalk@classiccmp.org>) escribió: > Neat. I remember seeing a PDP-7 at DECUS as part of a display honoring > the early history of Unix. It wasn't running, unfortunately, but it looked > like a complete machine. That was in The Hague,

Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
Neat. I remember seeing a PDP-7 at DECUS as part of a display honoring the early history of Unix. It wasn't running, unfortunately, but it looked like a complete machine. That was in The Hague, in the 1980s. Does this run on SIMH? That has PDP-7 emulation. paul > On Oct 18, 2019, a

Re: Looking for DEC RA80 (or RM80, R80) service manual (EK-ORA80-SV or similar)

2019-10-18 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 18/10/2019 05:51, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: (I should also note that there is an R80 service manual on Bitsavers -- I misspoke (mistyped?) in my initial e-mail. It doesn't provide a lot of details on the drive's operation and I was hoping the RA80 or RM80 manuals might be more detailed..

Re: Free to a good home: Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 workstation / server (Seattle, WA)

2019-10-18 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
for anyone who got this from Josh Jim Stephens loaned me a huge stash of documentation that I've been uploading to http://bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/series60level6/ On 1/22/16 10:35 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > Hi all -- > > I picked this DPS-6 up over the summer and it's just taking up space (quite

Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

2019-10-18 Thread Thomas Dzubin via cctalk
I don't have a PDP-7 to try it out on, but here it is: https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-earliest-unix-code-an-anniversary-source-code-release/ and https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/09/102785108-05-001-acc.pdf Enjoy! -- Thomas Dzubin Saskato

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 17

2019-10-18 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/18/19 12:06 PM, Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk wrote: > > Chuck, I am Scottish, I have never been to Berkeley! I just cant remember > the history. I remember playing the game with a bunch of post-graduates. > I was either a post-grad or perhaps an early lecturer in the Uni. That > places i

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 17

2019-10-18 Thread Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk
Paul - I had a quick look at PLATO. I dont think it was like that. In this game when you set a movement direction and velocity you moved through the universe in that direction “forever”. There was not concept of “moves” or “turns”, it was very dynamic. Spasim looks much closer - but was that “vect