mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason) (03/06/84)
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute has recently purchased a System V version
of Unix, and we wish to bring up Unix on a tiny machine:
pdp-11/34 with 256kb, floating point
2 RL01 disk drives
2 removable, 1 non-removable RK05 disk drives
16 ADM-3 and la36s connected via dz11
line printer
I realize that's a ridiculous configuration, but it's all we've got for
now. All we want to do is bring up c, coneuc, and ed. The immediate
problem is that the distribution tape from Bell only knows about big disks
so we can't even do a gen, and I'm not sure drivers for our little (can you
say microscopic) drives are even supplied. At this point I don't care if
we get version 6, just so my students can start using coneuc. We were planning
to go to DEC, pay $500 to rent one of their machines for a day, do the gen,
then move back to our system, but the chairman of my department hasn't been
able to find the $500 (and you thought you had tight budgets). We do have
another system (my personal computer) an 11 with 1 800 bpi tape drive and
1 (one) RL01, if you might have the original version 7 distribution that might
work....I'm getting desperate...any help appreciated...HELP!
ps...copy of license available for viewing.
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!utcsrgv!mason Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG