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

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>

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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.

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https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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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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