misha@huji.ac.il (Michael Pak) (08/13/90)
I am very interested in obtaining the 4.3BSD sources for IBM RT/PC. (ACIS or AOS) Is there anywhere I can get them using FTP (or similiar means)? (Though the complete sources are preferrable, I could settle just for the machine dependent part). Thanks a lot. ****************************************** * Michael Pak * * Department of Computer Science, * * Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel * * E-Mail: misha@boojum.huji.ac.il * ******************************************
brunner@bullhead.uucp (08/14/90)
In article <misha.650545394@mush> misha@boojum.huji.ac.il (of the department of computer science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal) writes: >I am very interested in obtaining the 4.3BSD sources for IBM RT/PC. >(ACIS or AOS) >Is there anywhere I can get them using FTP (or similiar means)? >(Though the complete sources are preferrable, I could settle just for > the machine dependent part). Misha, IBM/4.3 (originally "AOS", then "ACIS") for the rt (6150, 6151 and 6152), was _only_ distributed in source form in North America, with European and Asian "regional" distributors in Sweden and Japan, resp. The entire kernel and user sources were contained in the distribution (which origianlly did not include the 6152), with the following exceptions: binary only for the 8514 display, and binary only for the DWB-versions of tbl, nroff, and friends (though 32V/berkeley-versions of each were supplied in source form). The distribution was a creation of the Academic arm of IBM (since re-organized) and intended for Universities only, most of which have Berkeley sources and all the licenses that requires. Since European support was withdrawn earlier this year, I don't think that there is any way that you can get a current distribution (Dec. 1988) from IBM in Europe (I'm assuming that Israel is in Europe in this _very_ limited context), or from Chalmers (Sweden). I can't send you one for several reasons: Israel isn't in North America, I don't have a note from our license people to the effect that you (HUJ) hold a valid 32V and Regents license, and probably something to do with the announced withdrawal of support for the product IBM-wide (see my posting(s) of last May). Assuming that you _have_ the Dec 88 distribution, I can start the process of sending binaries of the current C, Pascal and FORTRAN compilers, and of the posted patches (the patches are available via anonymous ftp), see the postings in this newsgroup of a month or so ago. The process may complete in finite time. If you are serious send a postal mail request to me. The address is: Eric Brunner Advanced Workstation Division 1510 Page Mill Road - MS/35A Palo Alto, California 94304 U.S.A. Note: All of the early history of the distribution is my best effort at reconstruction - at the time of the first distribution I was finnishing the X/OPEN CAE in Munich for Siemens et al, and have no personal knowledge of the product prior to May 1989. Any errors, and there are bound to be several, are mine. Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto (415) 855-4486 inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner trying to understand multiprocessing is like having bees live inside your head.