RL02 version of UNIX6?

[william degnan]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:13 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:

> <snip>
>>
>> Anyway, try it, and let us know what happens. How much memory does the
>> system
>> have on it now?
>>
>>
> 64K.  I'd like to get another M7891, mine is only 1/2 populated.
>
>
>>
>> If it doesn't work, I can do some experiments and see what's the least
>> amount
>> of memory one needs.
>>
>> There are a whole bunch of parameters which will reduce the size of the
>> resident OS; if necessary, I can turn them all down to the minimum, and
>> see
>> what we get - although just reducing the number of disk buffer may do it.
>>
>>
> OK.
>
>
>> As for the applications, it does swap, so there's no requirement for more
>> than
>> one process to be resident at a time, so whatever the largest is -
>> probably
>> the C compiler - there only needs to be enough memory left over after the
>> OS
>> is loaded, for that one. It looks like the shell is about 10KB, for
>> example.
>>
>>
>> If it won't boot, don't trash the disk: if we send you another bootable
>> disk,
>> we can make it tiny (only Unix, and enough files to get it running:
>> /etc/init,
>> /bin/sh, etc), and if/once it books, you can mount the disk you just
>> wrote and
>> move the bootable Unix system image over, and then reboot on the current
>> disk,
>> to get to the rest of the stuff.
>>
>> Do you have two working RL drives on the machine?
>>
>>
> I was going to say...yes I have two working RL drives.
>
>
>>         Noel
>>
>
>
> The build just finished.  When I boot I get the ! prompt, but when I type
> rlinux the system bombs and I can go no farther
>
> Bill
>

sorry I mean rlunix, but typing anything kills the CPU and I have to
restart the system..
b