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Xref: sserve biz.comp.software:508 biz.dec:604 biz.dec.ip:10 biz.sco.general:9614 comp.misc:13073 comp.org.decus:2353 comp.os.misc:2677 comp.os.rsts:421 comp.os.vms:79665 comp.sys.dec:17600 comp.unix.bsd:13159 comp.unix.misc:10633 comp.unix.ultrix:20807 comp.unix.wizards:32072 vmsnet.pdp-11:1672 aus.computers:2104 aus.computers.linux:728 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!rutgers!spcuna!spcvxb!terry From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) Newsgroups: biz.comp.software,biz.dec,biz.dec.ip,biz.sco.general,comp.misc,comp.org.decus,comp.os.misc,comp.os.rsts,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.wizards,alt.sys.pdp11,vmsnet.pdp-11,aus.computers,aus.computers.linux Subject: Re: Unix on a PDP-11 and a uVAX II Message-ID: <1993Dec23.004550.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: 23 Dec 93 05:45:50 GMT References: <2f4kvd$bd3@werple.apana.org.au> <2f7p2a$cp7@dr-pepper.East.Sun.COM> <2fas7i$8to@fido.asd.sgi.com> Sender: news@spcuna.spc.edu (Network News) Distribution: inet Organization: St. Peter's College, US Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: spcvxa.spc.edu In article <2fas7i$8to@fido.asd.sgi.com>, leedom@gauss.asd.sgi.com (Casey Leedom) writes: > Since that time Steven Schultz (sms@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com) has maintained > the BSD PDP-11 port and has released it at least twice as BSD2.11 and (I > think) BSD2.11.1. Steven has significantly extended Keith's and my work > with the few features from BSD4.3 we omitted (the fast file system for > one) and many features from BSD4.3-reno. What can I say? It's good that > the world has a few masochists ... :-) Yup. Steve has even added support for recent DEC hardware. The current 2BSD supports the latest DEC PDP-11 gear, including the PDP-11/93 and 94, the RQZX1 combo SCSI/floppy/tape controller, and the DELQA-YM "Turbo DELQA" Ether- net controller (in Turbo mode, no less...). If you have a 4.3BSD application you can shoehorn into the PDP-11's address space (tops out at about 300Kb after overlays), it should run happily on a 2BSD system. Of course, you still need an WeCo/AT&T/USL/Unix-du-jour license in order to be able to order 2BSD, so that cuts the audience down a bit in size 8-( > For the absolute latest information on 2BSD look at the news group > comp.bugs.2bsd. Steven posts there quite frequently. And if you just want to see what it's all about, you can check out the ar- chives of this newsgroup via anonymous FTP from ftp.spc.edu in subdirectory [.usenet.comp-bugs-2bsd] (this is a VMS system, which explains the oddball syntax). The last 2.5 years of traffic are archived there. Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381