Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: new /unix Message-ID: <5165@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 19:15:15 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5165 Posted: Mon Mar 4 19:15:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 19:15:15 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 29 Now running on a new /unix, with a number of modifications. The boot board from the 45 is now on the 44, which means that (at long last!) we can dispense with lengthy typed-in boots for the disk and tape. Revised boot instructions will be posted shortly; the old ones still work in a pinch. The board is at 771000-771777. The kernel memory-allocation stuff has been altered to deal properly with >2MB of memory, which will probably be a reality here soon. We could test it right now, actually -- we have a total of 2.25MB of 44 memory on hand, although we're running with a bit under 2 right now -- but the gain doesn't seem worth fiddling with the boards, especially when we'll probably have to do it again soon for another 1MB board. The DH driver has been modified to permit running lines as both dialin and dialout. This stuff doesn't work. We don't know why yet, although I have a kernel dump which should tell us after a bit of analysis. For the moment, 5121 is still dialout-only via Wern's breakout box. A new "device" driver has been installed: /dev/prf is the user interface to a kernel profiler, somewhat similar to the one in System V. It seems to work, although we'll need to be up for a while before it really tells us anything useful. Documentation is coming. We have also done some minor cleanup chores, and removed the Star Ring driver since Star Ring interfacing is being left to the 05s. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry