Hiyas,
OK. Yes, it *is* there. And running.
I managed to install a fairly weird tape kit containing V2.0 BL8
of DEC's OSF/1 UNIX offering for their MIPS-based "DECstation"
line of systems.
It actually runs pretty good. Even on a very small machine (the
first test system was a DS2100 (12.5MHz R2000 with 24MB ;-) it
works fine. Even LAT works like a charm :)
I can see why they didnt release this one, though.. it is quite
raw, unfinished in many areas (I had to really work and tweak
stuff before I got a prompt..) and they obviously never intended
this to work on serial-console systems :)
But.. yay. It works, now. Just for the record:
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(vaxlab)$ telnet mipsfair
Trying 10.0.11.89...
Connected to mipsfair.
Escape character is '^]'.
OSF/1 (mipsfair) (ttyp0)
login: root
Password:
DEC OSF/1 X2.0-8 (Rev. 155); Sun Nov 14 21:45:24 MET 1999
DEC OSF/1 X2.0-8.1 Worksystem Software (Rev. 133)
The installation software has successfully installed your system.
There are logfiles which contain a record of your installation.
These are:
/var/adm/smlogs/install.log - general log file
/var/adm/smlogs/it.log - log for it(8) utility
/var/adm/smlogs/install.FS.log - file system creation logs
/var/adm/smlogs/setld.log - log for the setld(8) utility
/var/adm/smlogs/fverify.log - verification log file
# uname -a
OSF1 mipsfair 2.0 2.0 mips
#
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For those who would like to play with it, contact me off-list.
If you happen to have OSF stuff lying around [*and* know where
to find it *evil smile*..] drop me a line, please!
Cheers,
Fred
--
Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist
Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/
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I wrote:
> I'm not aware of any other production systems with speculative
> execution that are on-charter for this list (e.g., introduced before
> 12-nov-1993).
Well - how about the IBM 360/91 - and I imagine the Burroughs high-end stuff
did as well. I'm pretty sure the B4900 did, which suggests the B6900
probably did the same. These are circa 1980.
Steve Wilson
(Burroughs Alum)
On Nov 14, 17:28, Tom Jennings wrote:
> All criticisms are correct, my only defense is that it was 'for
> illustration purposes only' (sic).
>
> But it also proves a point, no code is 'temporary', kludges last
forever
> to embarrass their authors and all code needs documentation :-)
I can only use one "word" to follow that up: IEFBR14
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Nov 14, 20:23, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> Oh, I used the IRIX cc compiler. I found it to be a much nicer
ANSI C
> compiler than GCC, and with full warnings would tell you which
section of
> ANSI C (chapter and verse) which might cause a problem. If I'm using
IRIX,
> I would rather use the IRIX cc than gcc. Unfortunately, it now costs
an arm
> and a leg (then too!)
Yes, more's the pity. Unless you're running a really old version of
IRIX, like 5.3, in which case you can download the IDO for free, these
days, so long as you don't mind it not having some of the libraries
that we tend to take for granted these days.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Nov 14, 16:48, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> I know the IRIX C compiler can do global optimizations but that
takes
> quite a bit of time and processing power; I never bothered with it
when I
> was programming under IRIX. And this was at least 10 years ago so
it's
> margially on topic here 8-P
Maybe you should have. About 1996, I did a project during which (as a
side-effect) I spent a while looking at compiler output, and comparing
gcc to IRIX cc. In all the cases I tried, cc took about the same time
to compile as gcc, but produced faster (and often smaller) code.
That's not too surprising, really. For one thing, cc used a bigger
optimisation window. For another, it's written by a bunch of people
who are very close to the processor it's written for, and they didn't
have to worry about whether anything would work with some other
architecture; they could (and did) do extensive re-ordering of
instructions.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Hiyas,
Now that I'm doing nothing anyway, might as well pester y'all
with a question. Its offtopic, so there.
I am blessed with many feet of DECconnect cable (ya know, the
flat serial cables DEC used) and most of that cable is crimped
with one MMJ, and one RJ45 - probably cables going to RJ45 wall
sockets.
Obviously, I want to get rid of the RJ45's, soo.. where does
one order a bag (250-500) of these MMJs these days? I have
the right tools for it, just not the MMJs - used to have them
a long time ago, but that supply didnt last forever ...
If anyone knows a source, preferrably in Europe, that would
be great!
Cheers,
Fred
--
Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist
Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/
Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/
Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA
My family has a fully functional Apple IIGS computer purchased in 1984 or
1985 I believe. It has a 5.25" and two 3.5" daisy chained drives, printer,
keyboard and mouse, joystick, and lots of software (old games) for it. Is
it of any value or interest to anyone? Anybody know a way to electronically
transfer old documents from the word processor programs of that day to
modern Word format - or is my best option to print and scan anything of
significance?
Benjamin R. Campbell
Assistant Research Engineer
Electro-Optics Science and Technology Center
77 Glade Drive
Kittanning, PA 16201
email: <mailto:brc138@psu.edu> brc138(a)psu.edu
work: 724-543-0266
cel: 412-877-0072
fax: 724-545-9797
<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/bcampbell/Application%20Data/Microsof
t/Signatures/www.electro-optics.org> www.electro-optics.org
Is a Fairchild MB8116E the same as a standard 16kx1 4116 dynamic RAM?
Does anyone have a bunch (80 or more) that they would be willing to
part with? I need to populate the 2nd half of a memory board.
--tom
On Nov 14, 12:58, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> both appear to be on
> 2000dmp5-5-84iclContrib.tap
[...]
> 12% fgrep TREK73 *
> Binary file 00316 matches
[...]
> 13% strings *316*|more
> ------------------------------------ 00316
-------------------------------------
> TREK
> $R *** CHAIN TO TREK1,TREK2,TREK3,TREK4,TREK0 2-DEC-78 A. DE MARTINO
> R *** IN A100 ***
> R TREK73: AN ADVANCED STAR TREK BATTLE SIMULATION
> R PROGRAMMED BY WILLIAM K. CHAR AND ASSOCIATES, WILSON
> R EDP, 400 MANSELL, SAN FRAN, CA 94134, (415) 239-6460
> R 26 NOVEMBER 1973 ***FOR AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY***
> )HAVE YOU SEEN BATTLE BEFORE [ YES OR NO ]
This is a later version, not the original. I'm sort of glad about
that, because I was halfway through retyping the last part (of about 50
pages) when my email client beeped and I read this ;-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York