14 Dec
2014
14 Dec
'14
4:52 p.m.
I'm interested in that simh VM image.
Feeling a bit nostalgic for a Vax 11/780 and 4.3BSD, even after having a
Sun workstation on my assorted desks for about 8 years.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Michael Engel <engel at multicores.org>
wrote:
Hi,
On 14 Dec 2014, at 16:03, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
bits/Stanford
Thanks, Al - got it, looks great! I also found two later versions of the
seagate source,
modified to run on Kinetics FastPath routers (68008/68000-based
single-board routers
with a 82586 Ethernet controller and a Z8530) and renamed "KIP":
https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/snmp/cmu/kip/
ftp://ftp.st.ryukoku.ac.jp:/pub/network/cap/AT-KIP/
On 12/13/14 9:48 PM, Michael Engel wrote:
>
> according to
>
http://www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news021f2/b37/fa/info-mac/000016…
> Bill Croft at Stanford developed an Ethernet
to Apple LocalTalk gateway
> that ran on the original SUN 68000 CPU board.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot find the files mentioned in that post on any
info-mac
mirror
(or somewhere else on the net):
I've emailed you a copy, and I'll put the tarball up on bitsavers under The code was built using the SUMEX C toolchain,
derived from the MIT 68k
port of PCC, which
is even harder to find.
This is actually easy to find, SUMACC tools (actually a Mac cross
compiler, which works
fine for creating b.out binaries) are included in 4.3BSD's "new.tar.gz"
sources:
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/4.3BSD/new.tar.gz
I have sumacc working on 4.3BSD/VAX in simh (my real VAXen are still in
Germany and
are too recent to run 4.3BSD or even Quasijarus) anyways. NetBSD+emulation
might work).
The original SUN (and, presumably, also Codata) firmware was developed
using sumacc,
we are currently trying to get our own modifications to run using the
sunmon sources from
bitsavers. The sunmon sources compile after adding files from the PDF
source listing of an
older version (0.8) of sunmon (from
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/stanford/sun/SUN_Monitor_Listing_Aug…
)
and writing some missing header files (mostly nec7210.h), but we are still
struggling with
strange bus errors that keep creeping up when trying to run the code on
the real machine.
It works fine in the (very incomplete) mess Codata emulator as well as a
hacked-up version
of a Verilog implementation of a small Codata subset + an attached VPI
68000 simulator
(derived from Ben Herrenschmidt's minimigmac sources at
http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=minimigmac.git).
I also got the sumacc compilers to compile on OS X, but these show bugs in
the parser
and code generator, resulting in crashes. I'll try to figure these out
over the Christmas
break...
If anyone is interested in my simh VM image for VAX 11/780 with 4.3BSD,
the sumacc compilers
and the sunmon sources installed, please let me know.
-- Michael