[cctalk] Re: Emacs on v7

Adam Thornton wrote: > I finally got an Emacs running on v7--it's on misspiggy at LCML now as > "ue". It's Microemacs 3.6 As far as I know, the first Emacs on a PDP-11 was written by MIT alumnus Warren Montgomery at Bell labs.

[cctalk] Re: Emacs on v7

I picked that one because it said it had derived from a 1986 original, so I guessed that if I went back to the initial GH commit I'd get something that was K C and not a million miles away from v7, and I was right. I...can't believe I never thought of just tossing some #defines up top. I feel

[cctalk] Re: Apple 1

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 5:51 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I don't mean to be argumentative. I totally get it why the apple I is > historic and valuable, but the proportion is lost. My only point, the > proportion. The fact that today Apple is worth $1Tn does

[cctalk] Re: Apple 1

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 20:51 Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > The Jolt was the first 6502, how much is that worth? > Did the Jolt predate the KIM-1? I don't know their introduction dates.

[cctalk] Re: Apple 1

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 21:27 Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > The PACE itself was a re-cast of the NSC IMP-16 chipset. > The IMP-16 and PACE architectures were similar (and similar to the DG Nova), but they weren't binary or source compatible. Apparently NS didn't think there was enough of an

[cctalk] Re: Apple 1

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 8:38 PM Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 08:54 Bill Degnan via cctalk > wrote: > > > The Apple I is not historically significant enough alone to justify > > the prices they get > > > > The first product sold by the first company to hit $1T market cap

[cctalk] Re: Apple 1

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 08:54 Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > The Apple I is not historically significant enough alone to justify > the prices they get > The first product sold by the first company to hit $1T market cap seems historically significant to me. AFAIK the Apple 1 was also the first

[cctalk] Re: SCO on Virtualbox

Liam, I have been experimenting with GhostBSD 64bit. It runs quite well under Virtualbox. It is supported and updated and has a vast repo. There is a prebuilt package with the XFCE desktop. I added FireFox, bash, gzip and other toys. It functions superior to FreeBSD. If I want to go back in a

[cctalk] Re: Emacs on v7

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 5:26 PM Adam Thornton via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I finally got an Emacs running on v7--it's on misspiggy at LCML now as > "ue". > > It's Microemacs 3.6; what I did was to clone > https://github.com/troglobit/MicroEMACS and check out the first commit. > >

[cctalk] Emacs on v7

I finally got an Emacs running on v7--it's on misspiggy at LCML now as "ue". It's Microemacs 3.6; what I did was to clone https://github.com/troglobit/MicroEMACS and check out the first commit. Some experimentation later, it had the usual problem with v7 and DEC linkers that not all the function

[cctalk] Re: SCO on Virtualbox

On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 at 19:21, KenUnix via cctalk wrote: > > Has anyone got SCO Unix to successfully install and run on Virtualbox? > > My efforts have failed. My host is Ubuntu 22.04 with Virtualbox 7.0.10. No, but I have read that it is doable, with a very constrained VM. Some more info:

[cctalk] Re: fredmacs?

> On Aug 24, 2023, at 1:54 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk > wrote: > > Adam Thornton via cctalk writes: >> I have heard rumors of one "fredmacs" which is a more-or-less emacs that >> will run on PDP-11 v7 Unix. > > I don't know if this is what you heard about, but Fred Fish wrote an > Emacs

[cctalk] Re: Digilent Coolrunner-II eval kit?

Hi Tom, I have a Xilinx CoolRunner-II Design Kit from 2002. It was made by Digilent. On the silk screen it says Digilab XC2. You are welcome to have it for the cost of postage from Australia. Best regards Tom Hunter On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 2:40 AM Tom Uban via cctalk wrote: > I am looking for

[cctalk] Re: fredmacs?

> I don't know if this is what you heard about, but Fred Fish wrote an > Emacs that ran on top of TECO-11. Another similar thing: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/decus/110737.html

[cctalk] Re: fredmacs?

Adam Thornton via cctalk writes: > I have heard rumors of one "fredmacs" which is a more-or-less emacs that > will run on PDP-11 v7 Unix. I don't know if this is what you heard about, but Fred Fish wrote an Emacs that ran on top of TECO-11.