Hi,
I missed hearing about this, but Dr. Ken Bowles (father of UCSD Pascal)
passed away Aug 15 of this year.
http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2621
The story misses his important work on mainframes, including getting vector
mode
processing added to the Burroughs B6500 (which then became the B6700).
Stan
Hi, All,
I have a backup of some old code that I thought came from a Sun3
machine, and indeed, there _are_ binaries on there, in a directory
'sun' that _do_ run on a Sun3, verified under emulation with "tme".
The part that puzzles me is the collection of object files and
binaries in the directory above that. 'file' tells me that they are
"m68k COFF" files. From what I've read so far, COFF binaries are from
System V Release 2-4. What I can't reconcile is what they might have
been compiled on. Is it possible these were made for A/UX? The
relevant file dates (late-1988 through mid-1989) do overlap
availability of A/UX version 1.
If these are for A/UX, it would be handy to verify this, then it would
be more handy to be able to run them (I have source for some of this
but I'm having problems getting modern C compilers to digest
30-year-old crufty code, and for a couple of the utilities I need,
there is no source).
I'm reading of a "shoebill" emulator. Anyone have any experience with it?
Additionally, I'm reading that FreeBSD has a binary compatibility
layer for COFF but I wonder if that's for Intel binaries only or if it
extends to m68k.
I have a lot of experience with UNIX but my thinnest amount is in the
m68k arena (mostly some dabbling on Sun3 workstations and a
Perkin-Elmer 7350). Thanks for any pointers or tips.
-ethan
A friend of mine passed away a few days ago, and I am helping his brother
go through boxes of items. He was a research professer at the U of I, but
also spent time at CMU, Stanford and other places.
What I have had a chance to sort today follows, and there will be updates
throughout the week.
VIDEOS:
Tony Warnock- CRAY RESEARCH There are 3 tapes /day. I have 1-15 over 5 days?
Margaret Cahir -Cray Multitasking 6 tapes
John Rollwagen, CRAY- chairman and ceo,business, q and a organizational
changes- 4 tapes most dated 87, 88
also a tape labeled profile composite
TERA MTA report from SDSC 2 from 98, 1 from 99
Cray/ Silicon Graphics- The Power To See
UCA Professional Video Tape Plus- CRAY Applications Video Composite 1986
1600 BPI Perfect Benchmarks tape
A FEW of the Reports...
ACM SIGMETRICS 1994
ACM SIGMETRICS 2000
SPAA ACM 2002
SPAA ACM 2003
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND HIGH
PERFORMANCE COMPUTING VOL 1, NUM 1 SPRING 87 through VOL 8, NUM 2,
SUMMER 1994 22 volumes, might be missing a few. they could turn up tomorrow
CRAY -3 Hardware Reference Manual
CRAY Y-MP System Prog Reef Manual
Programmer Ref Manual
Functional Description Manual
CRAY UNICOS LINE EDITOR
I have 4-5 more boxes of books i will not get to tonight. There could be
another 20 boxes or more still there.
I am looking for reasonable offers and good homes. I am not a software guy,
my plate is more than full, and I have no place to store it.
Thanks, Paul
I'm a DEC guy so I don't know anything about the IBM world, but this is going up for auction on GovPlanet.com
<https://www.govplanet.com/for-sale/Other-IBM-Z196-Enterprise-Mainframe-Comp…>
Location is Richmond, VA
Seller: Commonwealth of Virginia, Dept. of General Services
IBM Z196 Enterprise Mainframe Computer
Mips:1280;MSU:160; Processors: 6 CP + 2 zIIPs; Storage: 32,768 meg
HSA Size-=16 GB; FICON express8 channels= 24; ESCON channels= 36; CTC/CNC Channels= 8 single mode
?Internal Coupling channels= 4; OSA Express3= 20;
Crypto Express3 cards= 2; Serial Number= 1D0E7
Bidder responsible for all loading and handling. Site does not have staff to assist with removing this lot.****Site does not ship**** Please contact Mike Shaffer at 804-297-2494 or e-mail mike.shaffer at vita.virginia.gov for inspection appointments or more information. Hours are by appointment only. Appointments may be scheduled Mon - Fri excluding holidays. All sales as is where is. No warranties or guarantees. Bidder to inspect in person to confirm condition
Just in case anyone is interested.
--
John H. Reinhardt
Hello,
I'm very interested in any media / documentation for Aviion machines too (I
have two of them).
Bruce: nice to hear from you!
>From your affirmation, I suspect there will be a very happy ending!
Any good news also for older OS for Nova and Eclipse (DOS, RDOS, AOS)?
Thanks
Andrea
(cross-posed to cctalk, vcf-midatlantic, and AHCS lists)
Imagine my surprise when I was catching up on my daily Vice News diet
today - watching today's and yesterday's episodes - when VCF
Mid-Atlantics's own Corey Cohen, InfoAge, and a VCFed banner popped up!
They did a story on an auction house and verification of an original
Apple 1 board up for sale. They called on Corey and his expertise to
verify the condition of the board!
Way to go Corey!
If you want to check out the segment, I've hosted it here:
https://www.atlhcs.org/links/Vice_Apple_Auction.ts
Enjoy!
-Alan H.
I sorted about 15 or so more of CRAY and other supercomputer items today.
Among other things were a bunch ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
and a ton of Parallel Computing booklets.
There were probably 20 or more full CRAY folders. Also 6 or so CRAY
"gifts", like a key fob, a semi circular blade and other items. He is not
sure if he is going to keep them, and I have no idea what kind, if any
offer I should make.
There are probable 15 boxes of research papers, and he went to conferences
almost everywhere.
I figure I might get it all moved by Friday, then I'll have to go through
it.
Paul
I have what I believe is an unused RA60 head #4. At least the surface looks
very clean.
Someone has written "RA60 04" on the side of the box. On the top there is
handwritten 70-18661-04.
https://i.imgur.com/RNK0FOTl.jpg
I could use a RL02 or RL01 head as a trade if someone is interested.
/Mattis
