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| From | Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.unix.bsd.misc, comp.misc, comp.unix.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Looking for historical source of the ex/vi editor |
| Date | 2024-12-08 20:06 +0000 |
| Organization | terraraq NNTP server |
| Message-ID | <wwvfrmyhrd4.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <20241123014205.0f18ecb030d7ed12ae7d60b9@gmail.moc> <vivt2n$2jidr$1@dont-email.me> <vj4po7$fvi$1@panix2.panix.com> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> 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?
That surprised me too, but Wikipedia tells me that SVR1 ran on PDP-11
and VAX.
It doesn’t seem to work very well on this emulator however...
error1
HALT instruction, PC: 000676 (JSR PC,4(R5))
sim>
sim> go
error2
HALT instruction, PC: 000716 (JSR PC,4(R5))
sim>
> And with the uid "3b2" also? And this isn't an AT&T 3B2 running SysV?
3b2 is just a username, the menu system offers a range of platforms.
--
https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
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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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