This file contains some/any details I have of the tape images in the Distributions directory. The details tends to lag behind the actual directory contents, as new things keep getting added. The order of coverage is Research, USDL, UCB, DEC and UNSW. Warren [Research] Dennis_v5 --------- v5root.gz is an RK05 image with Fifth Edition UNIX installed, from Dennis Ritchie. Unfortunately, Dennis no longer has the documentation, so this is strictly an incomplete distribution of Fifth Edition. Originally, the disk wouldn't boot up under an 11/45; however, the book block from a 6th Edition RK disk image can be used instead. The v5.origbootblock file contains the original boot block. The most recent timestamp on any file is March 22nd 1975. v5root.tar.gz is a tar archive of the contents of the RK05 image. Dennis_v6 --------- v6root.gz, v6src.gz and v6doc.gz are a set of three RK05 images of Sixth Edition with root, /usr and documentation, from Dennis Ritchie. The tape bootstraps are not included. The most recent timestamp on any file is July 19th 1975. v6root.tar.gz, v6src.tar.gz and v6doc.tar.gz are tar archives of the three RK05 images. Ken_Wellsch_v6 -------------- v6.tape.gz is a copy of the Sixth Edition distribution tape which was sent in by Ken Wellsch. The first 100 512-byte tape blocks contain the tape bootstrap stuff. Blocks 100 - 4099 are the RK05 root image, blocks 4100 - 8099 are the /usr RK05 image, and the blocks 8100 - 12099 are the /doc RK05 image. [I should verify that this is identical to Dennis' copy of 6th Edition] The most recent timestamp on any file in /usr and /doc is July 19th 1975, as with Dennis' copy. However, the most recent file timestamp on root is October 11th, 1975. root.v6.tar.gz, usr.v6.tar.gz and doc.v6.tar.gz are tar archives of the three RK05 images. Henry_Spencer_v7 ---------------- v7.tar.gz is a tar archive of 7th Edition from Henry Spencer. He says that the tarball was made when he originally received the distribution from Bell Labs, and it was ``just a matter of stripping out some preliminary goo that made the distribution tape self-booting, but I don't remember the details. ... So it's not in the original format, but it does have the original contents. There was a small addendum tape that some V7 sites got, with a few odds and ends of improvements and stuff that got left off the original tape by accident.'' v7.tar.gz is the distribution tar file. v7.patches.tar.gz holds a set of patches to V7: apparently they were left off the early distributions of v7. The most recent timestamp on any file is June 9th 1979. Keith_Bostic_v7 --------------- This set of files from Keith Bostic looks like the original tape records from the 7th Edition distribution tape. I haven't had a look at them as yet, but hopefully they are the virgin distribution. v7addenda.tar ------------- This tarball contains an addenda to the 7th edition UNIX distribution tape, and was released on `12/2/80'. Is this 12th February 1980 or 2nd December 1980? A brief summary of contents: many bug fixes. An lpr/lpd utility. A new awk. Fsck! A new f77. More robust mag tape drivers. Tim_Shoppa_v6 ------------- These are RL01/RL02 images from a 11/23 V6 system rescued from the University of British Columbia's Surplus Equipment Recycling Facility by Tim Shoppa during the summer of 1997. I haven't had a look at them yet. Torsten_Hippe_v7 ---------------- v7.gz is a bootable copy of Seventh Edition on an RL02 image, given to me by Torsten Hippe. The kernel source differs from unsw 81 in that there is extra code, ifdef'd with the names XBUF, INSTRM, SYSACCT, LRUI and SEPID. This 7th Edition seems to be heavily modified, compared to the virgin distributions above. The most recent timestamp on any file is September 22nd 1988. I should do a comparison with Henry Spencer's v7. [USDL] 32V Tape -------- Although 32V isn't strictly a PDP-11 UNIX system, it is a very close derivative of 7th Edition, so I thought it would be ok to archive it. The tape comes from Keith Bostic, and is composed of three images, file1, file2 and a tarball now called 32v_usr.tar. I assume that all three were originally three separate records on a tape. The information from Keith says: Block size for file1 is 512, block size for file2 is 10240. The first label on the tape: BELL LABORATORIES INC UNIX/32V* TIME-SHARING SYSTEM, VERSION 1.0 9 TRACK 800 BPI 3 FILES FILE1=232 RECORDS FILE 2=480 RECORDS FILE 3=1202 RECORDS *UNIX IS A TRADEMARK OF BELL LABORATORIES (2/22/80 written in pencil) The second label on the tape: RESTRICTED RIGHTS USE, DUPLICATION OR DISCLOSURE IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS STATED IN YOUR CONTRACT WITH WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC I haven't looked at file1 yet; I assume it's a set of bootstrap records. file2 is most likely a backup of the root filesystem, but I haven't tried to read it, or even work out what it is, yet. Mini-Unix --------- tape0.bin.gz, tape1.bin.gz and tape2.bin.gz are three RK05 disk images containing Mini-UNIX, sent in by Jay Jaegar. This is a cut-down V6 which can run on machines without user/kernel modes and without any memory management. tape0.tar.gz, tape1.tar.gz and tape2.tar.gz are tar archives of the three RK05 images. The most recent timestamp on any file is December 22nd 1976. PWB --- We don't have a full version of PWB yet which I have verified. According to the books, there are at least three versions: PWB/UNIX, PWB 1.0 and PWB 2.0. The file bostic_pwb.tar.gz contains a number of apparently incomplete PWB versions from Keith Bostic. The file spencer_pwb.tar.gz comes from Henry Spencer, who says that this is: A full PWB distribution, *almost* certainly straight off the Bell tapes except for conversion to tar format. I haven't had a chance to look at the latter yet. System III ---------- These files come from Kirk McKusick with the following note: This tree contains a copy of a System III distribution for PDP 11/45, 11/70. It was taken from the University of California official distribution tape. The tape files were as follows: File 1: 18 512 byte records (boot) File 2: 600 5120 byte records (mini-root) File 3: 39 5120 byte records (cpio binary) File 4: 392 5120 byte records (/) File 5: 756 5120 byte records (/usr/src/man) File 6: 54 5120 byte records (/usr/src/rje) File 7: 70 5120 byte records (/usr/src/graf) File 8: 2583 5120 byte records (/usr) [UCB] 1BSD ---- This tarball of the 1st Berkeley Software Distribution, created by Bill Joy, comes from Keith Bostic. Two files in the archive say: This tape includes sources and binaries for a quantity of UC Berkeley software. The major items on this tape are the instructional Pascal system and the text editor "ex". Other software here includes a modified shell, a new shell, new commands, and a "star trek" game. This tape reflects updates to Thu Jan 19 10:34:29 PST 1978 2BSD ---- The 2BSD tar archive, 2bsd.tar.gz, comes from Keith Bostic, with a note that: [this is] Extracted from a 2BSD distribution tape. First [printed] label on the tape: Second Berkeley Software Tape May 10, 1979 TAR 800BPI %dd if=/dev/mt0 bs=1b skip=1 of=tar %chmod 755 tar % tar x 10000 blocks Second label on the tape: The contents of this tape are distributed to UNIX licensees only, subject to the software agreement you have with Western Electric and an agreement with the University of California. The top-level READ_ME in the archive gives a date of Thu Apr 19 1979. In email, Keith Bostic says that `there was only one 2BSD release'; I assume that this means that the others had minor numbers (2.8, 2.9, 2.10 etc.). What is strange here is that Peter Salus' book `A Quarter Century of UNIX' says that 2BSD was released in mid 1978. However, the dates above indicate April 1979. The file spencer_2bsd.tar.gz comes from Henry Spencer and probably contains the same files. However, I haven't verified this yet. 2.79bsd.tar.gz, 2.8bsd.tar.gz ----------------------------- These are versions of 2BSD which were sent to me by Keith Bostic. I haven't had a look through them yet, so I can't tell you when they were originally released. 2.9BSD ------ The files in this directory are a complete distribution of 2.9BSD, sent in by Steven Schultz. file1.gz is the bootblock+bootprogram for the TU10/TU16 tape file1.ts.gz is the bootblock+bootprogram for the TS11 tape file2.gz is the standalone 'cat' program file3.gz is the Table Of Contents (used by the 'cat' program) file4.gz is the standalone 'mkfs' program file5.gz is the standalone 'restor' program file6.gz is the standalone 'icheck' program file7.gz is the dump of the root filesystem usr.tar.gz is a tar image of /usr with relative pathnames i.e. no leading /usr 2.9BSD-Patch ------------ 2.9BSD-30aug85.gz is a tar archive containing patches for 2.9BSD. Keith Bostic wrote the top-level README, which is dated Aug 22 1985. 2.9-pro350 ---------- The README says: This subtree consists of mods. to the 2.9BSD distribution that allow it to be run on the dec pro 350: - each directory contains the modified files or a diffs.sys file generated via. diff that shows the changes required - boot.doc gives an overview of the bootstrapping exercise - misc has a few utilities that are modified or required for bootstrapping (they should be compiled with the -DGOO option to enable mods.) - ra.c etc. drive the RQDX1 controller on the Micro/pdp11 and should also work on a unibus UDA50 2.11BSD ------- This is a complete distribution of 2.11BSD up to patch level 277, sent in by Steven Schultz. The distribution includes the tape bootstrappers. Note that Steven Schultz is still distributing new patches to 2.11BSD. Steven writes: The format of a 2.11BSD boot tape is: File # Block Size Content ---- ---------- ------- 0 512 mtboot,mtboot,boot (pad mtboot out to 512 bytes) 1 1024 disklabel 2 1024 mkfs 3 1024 restor 4 1024 icheck 5 10240 root.dump 6 10240 file6.tar 7 10240 file7.tar 8 10240 file8.tar 3BSD ---- As with the 32V release, this is worth archiving even though it isn't for the PDP-11 architecture. Unfortunately I don't have any information about this distribution except that I obtained it from Keith Bostic. Peter Salus' book `A Quarter Century of UNIX' says that 3BSD came out in late 1979. [DEC] Jean_Huens_v7m -------------- This is a full distribution of a modified version of 7th Edition UNIX, donated by Jean Huens. Fred Canter confirms that this was created at DEC and distributed by them. The version we have is V7M Release 2.1. A README in /sys tarball says: UNIX/V7M SOURCE FILES This directory contains the source files for unix/v7m, which is unix version 7 modified to support the new DEC devices. Such as, the PDP 1144, rm02/3, rk06/7, rl02, and ts11. Unix/v7m has an overlay kernel for non-separate I/D space CPU's. Unix/v7m also contains maintainability enhancements and bug fixes. addenda - The Western Electric UNIX/V7 addenda dated 12/2/80. h - Header files used by the source files. conf - Assembley language and configuration files. dev - Device drivers. ovdev - Driver object modules for overlay kernel. sys - The unix kernel. ovsys - System object modules & LIB1 for overlay kernel. sas - Standalone stuff, unix/v7m two stage bootstrap monitor. mdec - Unix/v7m rp,rl,hp,hk disks, block zero boot code. You will also find some versions of Ultrix-11 in the dec directory. Xinu ---- DISTR.lsi.tar.gz is a tar archive of version 7 of the Xinu operating system, a Unix clone for the LS1-11. Xinu was written by Douglas Comer. This is copyright Prentice-Hall, but can be distributed as long as it doesn't compete with Doug's book on Xinu. [unsw] The rest of this file describes the tapes in the unsw directory. These are a bunch of tapes that I rescued from the School of Computer Science at ADFA, which is an outpost of UNSW. The most interesting tapes here contain the AUSAM modifications to 6th Edition. UNSW 01 ------- Tape label: System Source Disk DD format URK? BS=24B count=203 800bpi 9track UNIX System Source 1 of 1 25/1/78 A distribution of UNIX source from UNSW, with several changes. record0.gz is an RK05 image laid out according to the `Boston Children's Museum' format (i-nodes in the middle). Latest file timestamp is Jan 24 1978. There is only kernel source, plus a `unswbatch' directory. The latter seems to hold the source to a UNIX batch system developed by Ian Johnstone and other at the School of Electrical Engineering at UNSW. record0.tar.gz is a tar archive of the RK05 image. UNSW 02 ------- Tape label: UNIX Fun & Games & Pics 800 bpi 9 track itp Format Reel 1 of 1 25/1/78 Lots of BASIC programs and Ascii lineprinter pictures. record0.gz is an itp archive. There is no UNIX-related stuff. Everything is dated Jan 22 1978. UNSW 03 ------- Tape label: System Disk DD format URK? 800bpi 9track UNIX System Disk 1 of 1 25/1/78 Binaries to a UNIX system, no source code. Latest date is Jan 24th 1978. UNSW 04 ------- Tape label: UNSW 4th Distrib (2 files) PWB-UNIX (Part 1) (1 file) TP format 800bpi Sizes: 4303 5101 7326 records NO RING EVER Record0.gz is a tp format archive of the AUSAM modifications done at UNSW of 6th Edition UNIX, dated November 1979. Documentation and kernel sources exist, but there is no source for libraries or ordinary commands. Most recent file date is November 1st, 1979. The kernel diffs against UNSW 106 are small, so UNSW 04 evolved from UNSW 106. Record1.gz is a tp format archive of AUSAM programs and library source. This is an assumption, as again the most recent file date is November 1st, 1979. Record2.gz is a tp format archive of binaries and man pages for PWB-UNIX. Latest date is September 8th 1978. There is no source code on the tape. UNSW 05 ------- Tape label: PWB UNIX (Part 2) 1 file 205 Level 7 UNIX 1 file 640 Berkeley Pascal \ Vrije Pascal / 1 file 319 blocks No Ring Ever Record0.gz is a dtp archive of PWB-UNIX. Unfortunately there is a hard error in record 0, and I was unsuccessful in recovering the rest of record 0, nor record 1 and 2. The dirlist file shows what is in record 0. Latest date is September 8th 1978. UNSW 06 ------- Tape label: Hebrew Distribution Toronto Graphics Distribution DTP No Ring Ever Yet another tp format, dtp. This one puts the offset of data in the first 8 bytes, starts the dir at offset 128, with 114-byte names. Progs/dtp can extract it. The tape has no UNIX src. There are top-level directories gpac, huji and tor. Latest date is December 20th 1979. UNSW 07 ------- Tape label: UNIX Source & Documentation 800 bpi 9 track itp Format Reel 1 of 1 25/1/78 Record0.gz is an itp archive of UNIX source code and documentation. I have no clear idea as to the version archived. File dates range from August 21th 1976 to January 24th 1978. It has some UNSW modifications, with the highest labelled `fix016' in param.h, and that's 16 decimal. UNSW 81 ------- Tape label: UNIX Level 7 Source from tape #5 part 2 13/4/81 Just as it says. dtp format, also includes binaries. No WECo boot records though (as described in `Setting up UNIX' in the V7 manuals). The most recent timestamp on any file is August 22nd 1979. UNSW 81 and UNSW 83 are identical. They contain Seventh Edition UNIX. Looks like a complete distribution as well. There are hptmunix, rphtunix and rptmunix kernels. No rk or rl ones, though. [Compare these to Henry's tape] UNSW 82 ------- Tape label: UNIX L6 VRIJE and Berkeley Pascal from tape #5 part 3 14/4/81 Record0.gz is a dtp archive of at least Berkeley Pascal, in the pascal directory. Actually there's a csh, and install.ms indicates that this is in fact 2BSD. The READ_ME file in the pascal directory has a timestamp inside of April 19th 1979. The pc directory contains Pascal-VU (dated May 29th 1979) from Vrije University, the Netherlands. Latest file date in the pascal directory is August 1st 1979, and for the pc directory is October 30th 1979. UNSW 83 ------- Tape label: UNIX Level 7 Sources from tapes 92 & 93 reel 1 of 1 5/1/83 dtp format. As the label says. Looks very much like tape 81. In fact a comparison of the contents show it to be exactly the same. UNSW 85 ------- Tape label: UNIX L6 Source (tp) from tape #4, part of file 2 13/2/81 tp format, no man pages. The file seems to be truncated, I got block errors with my tp program. UNSW 86 ------- Tape label: UNIX L6 Source (tp) from tape #4, file 3 28/7/81 tp format. /bin, /usr, /etc, man pages, i.e all but src. UNSW 87 ------- Tape label: UNIX Level 6 Source PWB Part 2 from tape #5, part 1 dtp 10/12/81 This looks like it contains the source code to PWB 1.0. There are no manuals and no binaries (well, a few scattered in source dirs). UNSW 88 ------- Tape label: UNIX Level 6 Source Languages etc, dtp 16/3/81 dtp format. Source for lots of languages. No system source. UNSW 89 ------- Tape label: UNIX Level 6 Source Nroff Tables dtp 16/3/81 dtp format. Yep, nroff tables, not very exciting. UNSW 90 ------- Tape label: UNIX Level 6 Source Archive dtp 7/5/81 dtp format. Applications source, no system source. UNSW 92 ------- Tape label: UNIX Level 7 Source UNSW (dtp) 25/3/81 The kernel on this tape has lots of diffs compared to unsw 81. I cannot tell which is older, but from the dates (1979 vs 1981), I assmume that this tape is older than unsw 81. It would be good to compare unsw 81, unsw 92, Henry Spencer's V7 and the tape from Torsten Hippe. There is only source on the tape, no binaries. UNSW 93 ------- Tape label: UNIX Level 7 Source UNSW (dtp) 30/9/81 I got hard read errors on this tape, so it's probably incomplete. UNSW 106 -------- Tape label: UNIX L6 Source 1 (tp) 29/1/81 This seems to be a 6th Edition patched with AUSAM, and something else: the code has `fix025' style comments scattered around. This needs investigation. The tape only has kernel source. UNSW 107 -------- Tape label: UNIX L6 Source 2 (RK05 #24) (tp) 5/2/81 UNSW 108 -------- Tape label: UNIX L6 Source 3 (tp) 12/2/81 UNSW 110 -------- Tape label: UNIX L6 Source macro-linker, make, dostp, yacc, libS.old 7/5/81