Re: [hatari-devel] Atari TT emulation and SCSI/Atari SysV Unix

[Uwe Seimet <Uwe.Seimet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As already mentioned, this is not free software. So I'm afraid I cannot
contribute an image.

Take care

Uwe

> That's a fascinating story, Uwe :) I agree it doesn't make sense to compile
> / port current software for it but for historical reasons it's great to
> have it available (maybe one day Hatari will really be able to run it). I'm
> sure you'd make Alex & co's day if you manage to find the intact image
> file, they seem to really enjoy digging in this piece of history.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Uwe Seimet <Uwe.Seimet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, this is the main reason why I was running ASV:
> >
> > http://www.seimet.de/en/simulation.html
> >
> > ASV was my main development platform.
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I haven't been running it for years, but of course I have an image, like
> > > I have backups of all my data. I still have the original hard disk it was
> > > delivered on, because the first thing I did was cloning it to a bigger
> > > drive and keep the original drive unchanged. (I don't have a tape drive,
> > > but Atari also delivered the system on hard disks.)
> > > Anyway, I will not spend any time on it anymore. In the early 90s this
> > > system was interesting because there was no Linux at all, not even for
> > PCs.
> > > Keeping it up-to-date was quite time consuming, but at least I managed
> > > to get gcc patches accepted by the GCC folks at that time. I think gcc
> > > 2.95.2 is the latest version you can use with it. And with gcc 2.95.2
> > > it was possible to at least compile X11R5 and Motif 1.2 with it at that
> > > time. Compiling gcc took about a full day if I remember correctly ... A
> > > cross compiler should help, though.
> > > Nowadays, even for a hobby I would not spend time on this system
> > > anymore. What you can do with it is simply too limited compared to
> > > Linux. Trying to compile current software packages will most likely
> > > require a lot of patching, not just because the system is so old, but
> > > also because it is so exotic.
> > >
> > > Take care
> > >
> > > Uwe
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Uwe Seimet <Uwe.Seimet@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > And, by the way, it has never been free software. I paid about 4000
> > DM
> > > > > for it. Guess I'm one of the very few who even has an original
> > manual ;-).
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Wow! Do you still have it running / mirrored to a file image? Some guys
> > > > have made great progress to get SVR4 running in full glory:
> > > > http://atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9629&start=225 (look for
> > later
> > > > posts), maybe you could join forces to improve it even more, before it
> > > > vanishes due to a disk failure or something else. Actually, I did the
> > > > initial mirroring of those two images, I'd hoped somebody would catch
> > up
> > > > and indeed they did!
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > MiKRO / Mystic Bytes
> > > > http://mikro.atari.org
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> MiKRO / Mystic Bytes
> http://mikro.atari.org

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