[Info-vax] XENIX VAX / PDP

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/29/19 3:19 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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
> 

I don't think Xenix was derived from v7 as much as from SYS-III.

bill