Glad you could reproduce it... although I did this years ago.. Finding the driver in Google groups was a godsend, since it was pretty useless without networking.
Years ago I built a few things for 4.2 to make it feel a little more modern, although to be honest the UWSIC build of 4.3BSD is so much more useful. I have tap files of the following binary packages: gcc-1.21.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2 dungeon-2.5.6.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2 flex-2.5.4.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2 gcc-1.42.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2 bison-1.25.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2 hack-1.0.3.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2 gzip-1.2.4.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2 gcc-1.27.binary.BSD-4.2.tap.bz2 which are available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.2%20BSD/ <http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.2%20BSD/> And if you look around the project files, I have quite a bit built out for more platforms as well. I couldn't get an IRC client to build to save my life, but on 4.3 it was pretty trivial. I'd avoid RENO, it really is quite unstable when you push it hard. Jason _____ From: Henry Bent [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Simh] 4.2BSD with networking on a VAX 11/780 Hi all, As part of ongoing efforts with a different project I set up a 4.2BSD install on a vax780 sim with networking support. After I did it I realized that I wasn't sure it had ever been done on SIMH before, so I wanted to let folks know that it's possible. All I've tested so far is the ftp client, but I was able to download files from a machine on the local subnet as well as a machine on the larger internet. If you want to try it out, http://occs.cs.oberlin.edu/~hbent/vaxultrix/42bsd-net.tar.bz2 <http://occs.cs.oberlin.edu/~hbent/vaxultrix/42bsd-net.tar.bz2> is a virgin install of 4.2BSD on an RA81 complete with an ini and bootloader file, ready to go. I just added the DEUNA driver and recompiled the kernel based on my local setup. It was tested with the most recent version of the vax780 simulator from git, I have no idea if it will work on any other version. Adding the driver was actually fairly easy. I found the original 4.2BSD driver on google groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/net.unix/qqCxhYWQPtI/c7Ptc1mjQ9sJ <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/net.unix/qqCxhYWQPtI/c7Ptc1mjQ9s J> . This is the direct ancestor of the driver from 4.3BSD as well as Ultrix. It did not need any changes to compile, just an update to /usr/sys/conf/files.vax and an addition to the kernel config file. Enjoy! -Henry
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