[Info-vax] XENIX VAX / PDP

[Scott Dorsey]

Supratim Sanyal  <\"supratim sanyal"
 <"qcocal::sanyal\""@NOSPAM.X.mim.X.update.X.uu.X.se.NOSPAM> wrote:
>On 09/29/2019 08:09 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> In article <qmq4ac$2v4$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Supratim Sanyal  <\"supratim sanyal"
>>   <"qcocal::sanyal\""@NOSPAM.X.mim.X.update.X.uu.X.se.NOSPAM> wrote:
>>> On 09/28/2019 08:46 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> On the other hand you could just run v7 and get all the good parts
>>>> of Xenix without all the bad ones.
>>>
>>> gunkies wiki worked perfectly. Who are T B London and J F Reiser?
>> 
>> Who is gunkie?
>
>No idea, but I followed this: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_32v_on_SIMH

32v is not v7.  A lot of changes were necessary to extend the word length.
The software tools kit is mostly the same but the kernel has a lot of
changes to run on the vax.
 
>> Tom London and John Reiser were the guys at Berkeley who did most of
>> the conversion of v7 to V/32 and 32-bittified Unix.  I believe that Tom
>> started the Berkeley tradition of putting haiku into source code comments.
>
>Fascinating stuff! BTW as you know doubt must be aware of, I also 
>chanced upon a x86 port by Robert Nordier: http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/#

Not really.  I know there were a few other attempts to port v7 to toy
computers but none of them were as successful as Xenix.  Hell, you could
buy a computer running Xenix at Radio Shack of all places.  "You've got
questions, we've got blank stares."
--scott
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