Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA11461 for pups-liszt; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:23:34 +1100 (EST) Received: from zippy.bernstein.com (entropy@zippy.bernstein.com [206.20.83.202]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA11456 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:23:21 +1100 (EST) Received: (from entropy@localhost) by zippy.bernstein.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id DAA24861; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 03:22:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 03:22:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902170822.DAA24861@zippy.bernstein.com> From: maximum entropy To: djenner@halcyon.com CC: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au In-reply-to: <36CA5B0D.8A2B2629@halcyon.com> (djenner@halcyon.com) Subject: Venix (was Re: 2.9BSD: mbuf.h) Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk >Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:00:45 -0800 >From: "David C. Jenner" > >Speaking of the Pro, I have one and have been trying to get Venix >to run on it. The rub is, there are two versions: one directly from >VenturCom (Venix/Pro) and one licensed through DEC (Pro/Venix). Interesting...I know there's a Venix 1.0 and a Venix 2.0. I thought they were both from Venturcom, with 1.0 being for the Pro-350 and 2.0 for the Pro-380. I never heard of a distinction between Venix/Pro vs. Pro/Venix. Then again, I got into this game fairly late...I bought my used Pro-350 around 1993 for US$100, with Venix 1.0 already installed (also with original install media and docs). >Venix/Pro is freely available on the Internet at ftp.update.uu.se, >but Pro/Venix seems to be a little harder to find. Pro/Venix is >much to be preferred because you can reconfigure the kernel (in >binary) to include different drivers, etc. > >I've been able to acquire all the documentation and all (almost) the >disks for Pro/Venix 2.0. A couple of the disks are apparently >unusable or missing in the set I have. I have the following archives of Venix-related stuff that I snagged from the net a few years back. If you think any of them might contain what you're looking for, let me know and I'll give more detail about their contents. -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 3833 Oct 17 1997 README -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 532 Oct 17 1997 README.VAX -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 30819 Oct 17 1997 RX50.notes -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 2530759 Oct 17 1997 Venix1.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 2503931 Oct 17 1997 Venix2.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 15817 Oct 17 1997 cathang.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 332543 Oct 17 1997 mopimage.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 443 Oct 17 1997 nbsdrx50.readme -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 897510 Oct 17 1997 nbsdrx50.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 155648 Oct 17 1997 pppd -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 193536 Oct 17 1997 pr0801eng.sys -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 14153 Oct 17 1997 raind112.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 6621 Oct 17 1997 rx50.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 81152 Oct 17 1997 teledisk.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 61440 Oct 17 1997 venix.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 116 Oct 17 1997 venix1.readme -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 1119490 Oct 17 1997 venix1s.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 1095824 Oct 17 1997 venix1u.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 424 Oct 17 1997 venix2.readme -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 1058970 Oct 17 1997 venix2s.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 1145720 Oct 17 1997 venix2u.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 entropy user 332362 Oct 17 1997 vnx2u2u5.zip -- entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.