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yay me! got a badge too. Guess I'll spam it on my blog. Although I don't see that many downloads, maybe it's some after the fact thing, I haven't even looked at the analytics.

The big change is SLiRP integration. It's hard coded to listen on port 42323 to telnet it. I'm building with Visual C++ command line tools.

I haven't done a LOT of testing but enough to telnet into it a few times, and to paste 100kb of uuencoded source code to compile something. It worked!

I just added the new'ish SUN-2 emulator into the mix, along with SunOS 2.0. SLiRP network currently doesn't do anything, but all being well that'll change soon enough. Meanwhile I wanted to let people try this thing out! Unlike TME this is pretty easy to get working, and runs on Windows!

I went ahead and packaged & uploaed my old 386BSD-0.0 build.

From the readme:
This is my old disk/hacked install of 386BSD 0.0.
From what I recall I used the boot program from either 386BSD 0.1 or an early NetBSD.
Obviously the Mach boot loader would probably work better as it uses the BIOS to
load the kernel.... read more

So after the release of Research UNIX v8/9/10 I just got v9 running on TME's SUN-3 emulator. Since it's been requested I'm uploading my tree built on vintage Debian Linux 4 ....

GCC 0.9 was the first public version of GCC. In the spirit of preserving old stuff, I have built both bison 1.00 & GCC 0.9 on 4.2BSD. I detailed the adventure on my blog

https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2016/12/01/building-using-gcc-0-90-aka-first-public-version/

Since the main site is offline, I was able to ask around on my blog, and Cory Smelosky had a full offline set, so I've added them to the site to preserve them.

This also includes the SCCS reconstruction files.

Over at my blog, this version of BSD passed my desk.

In keeping with my fine tradition here, I'm going to keep a copy over here.

So, I've gone ahead and corrected that.

For those who are brave(crazy) enough to do their own, I've also uploaded the installation tape, and made some brief instructions on gunkies.

There is no TCP/IP in this release for anyone wondering.

Although the PDP-11 version builds on the VAX under 4.2 BSD just fine.

Attempt to compile with any PDP-11 Unix of that era results in failure. Although it seems that the PDP-11 version was an incomplete and stolen version.

From usenet:

Date-Received: Mon, 22-Apr-85 06:57:56 EST
References: 556@intelca.UUCP
Reply-To: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Distribution: net
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 11... read more

Apparently part 15 has been lost forever, but I found it in the UTZOO usenet archives.

And it compiles and runs on 4.2 BSD

implementation from the core Basilisk is much faster than the ancient Qemu stuff I'm using here.

And it's been a few years.

I really need to repackage everything, set it up to be more 'windows' friendly regarding the disk file locations, and redoing all of the documentation from the era as PDFs.

Or CHM, but that'll be a steep learning curve.

I'm just amazed looking at the stats how many downloads this still receives. Obviously people are interested but the utter lack of feedback hasn't helped regarding things to improve.... read more

I've scrounged the CVS, pulled out what I could, replaced missing parts from 386BSD, and produced as much as I could to what I think NetBSD 0.8 would have looked like.....

So unless someone turns up an actuall copy of NetBSD 0.8, this is as good as it'll get.

I just found the disks for this, and I've installed it and provided a qemu image for it... And for the adventitiousness there is diskettes in the archive to install your own.

So NetBSD 0.9 lives again!

In addition to the install tapes for NetBSD 1.2 (the first version of NetBSD to support the VAX) I've included some packages built for it.

I've uploaded an install tape into the install archive of 2.11 BSD.. I have no idea what patchlevel it is..

I've also rigged a zip file with SIMH SLiRP/PDP-11 and a hacked up de driver to get it networkable. I guess it's not surprising that the PDP-11 & VAX versions of the de driver suffer from the exact same symptoms where all inbound packets are marked as errors. I've simply removed the error checking as SLiRP should be passing good traffic into the host OS.... read more

I figured I'd provide the diskette images that I used to install 386BSD into Bochs (then convert to Qemu).. At a minimum this will save someone the hell that was creating these things.

Recently on a project to get 386BSD to install on Bochs I found out that once patchkit 023 was installed, the kernel would run under Qemu!

So here is a release of 386BSD with all the available patchkits installed, and normalized, and setup running under Qemu 0.11.1

You can download it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/4BSD%20under%20Windows/v0.4/386BSD-0.1.exe/download

Seeing that 386BSD is a 4.3BSD derived OS, I figure it's worth including into this project.

Recently I've found this CP/M simulator called 'com'. I thought it'd be great to run
CP/M programs under various VAX BSD OS's... You can find more info on the simulator at it's home here:

http://userweb.windwireless.net/~jimc/com.html

I've included different exes in this build...

myname# ls ../cc*
../ccom* ../ccom8080* ../ccomz80* ../ccpu.c ../ccpu.o

ccom this was built with the default cc compiler with the -O flag.
ccom8080 this was built with gcc 2.7.2.2 with the O2 flag.
ccomz80 this was also built with gcc 2.7.2.2 but with the -O flag, and the z80
code turned on. I couldn't build it with O2 as I ran out of memory.... read more

It'd hit me that I never did get around to building packages for Quasijarus... So today waiting on a conference call from hell, I've been building stuff, to at least bring Quasijarus up to the level of the UWISC build of 4.3 BSD... Or as close as I can get.

I've been meaning to release this for a while. This version includes some fixes for the terminal emulator (arrow keys!!) and I've bundled in the following 3rd party software to the 4.3 BSD Uwisc distribution.

binutils 2.8.1
gcc 2.7.2.2
irc 4-4
lynx 2.8.2 rel 1.1
screen 3.7.1
top 3.2
frotz 2.32

This will be easier for people to 'get going' right away... And hopefully be easier for people to use. I've started work on converting the man pages into a windows help file, but it's more difficult then I had expected (those markups are... weird!) so it'll be another long haul to get that going.... read more

I've added some binary builds of dungeon (4.3 RENO won't build it's linker is missing stuff, but it'll run the 4.2 binary...) and I 'fixed' the broken hack for 4.3 BSD... apparently someone downloaded it over 700 times... sadly it was broken on the server.

Otherwise, it's just another lazy Sunday.

This is the f77 'clean' version of Dungeon, better known to the world as Zork. This should build cleanly with the f77 facility in 4.X BSD and perhaps many others... 32v can almost compile it, but you'd have to rebuild it's f77 with a larger hash table..

Anyways I've built it for 4.3 UWisc BSD without any issues, and I've put up a binary package.

Sorry for the delays I've been (slowly) working on a better help system to get away from the PDF's and into something more windows like.

you can download 32v here: https://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=204974&filename=unix32v-0.3.exe&a=43027585

As a simple windows installer. Just install and run and you'll be at the login: prompt in no time!

Unix32v is the common ancestor to both 4BSD and SYSV. While primitave by modern standards, this is the version where all 32bit unix's can be traced back to. This is also the release that was central in the AT&T vs CSRG lawsuit.... read more

Today I've added Hack 1.0.3, gdb 3.1 & the significantly improved ircII-4.4 to the Uwisc package tapes. This irc client works great on attached PTY's. Feel free to say hi on #bsd via chat.taucher.net The client is preconfigured, and ready to go. Just type in irc-4.4 username and you'll be ready to /join #bsd

Package files can be downloaded from here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204974&package_id=244793&release_id=676947... read more