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Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor

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In article <vj4po7$fvi$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>Sebastian  <sebastian@here.com.invalid> wrote:
>>If you SSH to 3b2@sdf.org, you can find your way into an emulated
>>PDP-11 running System V. It has some version of vi installed,
>>with source code. It's possible to extract this code from the
>>system by first porting uuencode to it, and then porting a
>>version of tar that you can also run someplace else. The tar
>>that's installed on the system is not compatible with modern tars,
>>nor is it compatible with V7 tar.
>
>Something is wrong here.  A PDP-11 running SysV?  And with the uid "3b2"
>also?  And this isn't an AT&T 3B2 running SysV?

The earliest versions of System V (e.g., Unix 4 and SVR1) ran on
the PDP-11.

The above is correct; logging into `3b2@sdf.org` puts one into a
captive menu environment, and one of the options there is to
connect to an emulated PDP-11 running SysV; a new instance will
start if you select that menu option.  Then you can, `boot rp0`
and `0unix` (this will display as `0=unix`).

	- Dan C.

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Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2024-11-23 01:42 +0300
  Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> - 2024-11-23 18:09 +0000
    Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2024-11-23 23:03 +0300
    Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-11-23 20:41 +0000
    Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-23 21:09 +0000
  Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2024-11-26 14:03 +0000
    Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-11-26 19:23 +0300
      Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2024-11-27 13:20 +0000
        Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-11-28 17:17 +0300
  Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Sebastian <sebastian@here.com.invalid> - 2024-12-06 22:15 +0000
    Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-12-08 18:49 +0000
      Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-08 20:06 +0000
      Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-12-08 21:15 +0000

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