[HECnet] Sunlink DNA

Thu Sep 20 18:39:16 PDT 2018

I was going to mention that site.  I went through some fun to get Research Unix  9 running, and there was great tips + patches.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/04/01/research-unix-v9/

I had ued Debian 4 to build it, as I found an “era correct” build environment less of a fight.

I think I have a pre-compiled x86 binary in there.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/4BSD%20under%20Windows/v0/SUN3-research_v9.7z/download

Sent from my Windows 10 device

From: Ray Jewhurst
Sent: Friday, 21 September 2018 9:32 AM
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Sunlink DNA

Hi,
I found this page dedicated to Sun2 emulation using TME.  It has some tips for SunOS.
http://www.heeltoe.com/index.php?n=Retro.Sun2

Ray

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 5:02 PM, Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> wrote:
I posted this message yesterday, but for some reason people are telling me it never went to the list.
I removed the photos I originally attached and am sending it again.

-Mark

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From: Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Sunlink DNA
To: hecnet at update.uu.se

To everyone who asked, I built TME last night on Ubuntu 18.04 on two different systems, and installed NetBSD 1.6.2 on a sun3/160 instance.
It's working very nicely, minus networking; bear in mind that TME was originally written to run on a NetBSD host (it's in the pkg collection), and makes use of BPF to implement networking (I seem to remember it also working on FreeBSD). Linux does have a bpf compatibility interface, so I'll see if it can be made to work and follow up with you all. That said, grab TME here: https://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/tme-0.8.tar.gz
That's the home site, there's lots of info on the emulator https://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/
There's also this site, specifically about installing SunOS 4.1.1: http://www.abiyo.net/retrocomputing/installingsunos411tosun3emulatedintme08onlinux
DON'T follow those build instructions, they're incredibly old and will get you nowhere fast.  :)

Here are my steps:
Make sure you have the gtk-2.0 and glib2.0 dev packages installed. Then...
mkdir $HOME/tme
cd $HOME/tme
tar -zxvf your_download_dir/tme-0.8.tar.gz
cd tme-0.8
vi libtme/module.c (comment out line 93 "LTDL_SET_PRELOADED_SYMBOLS();", it's no longer needed) and save.
./configure --prefix=$HOME/tme --disable-warnings 'LIBS=-lglib-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lX11'
export LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/tme/lib (or "setenv LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH $HOME/tme/lib" for csh/tcsh)
make
make install

If everything built and installed without errors, you'll have the install tree in $HOME/tme. From here you can follow the various instructions on the original site above for installing NetBSD, etc.

If you ran into any errors either building, installing, or running, just drop me a note, I'd be happy to help!

P.S.: I've attached some photos of it booting up!
P.P.S: You'll notice it seg fault when you exit tmesh. The original does this too. The author even comments about how there's no "quit" command.

Regards,
Mark

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

  Thanks Mark!

       -Dave

On 09/18/2018 08:59 PM, Mark Abene wrote:
> Absolutely. I'll dig it out after dinner later tonight.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com
> <mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 09/18/2018 08:12 PM, Mark Abene wrote:
>     > The TME emulator works fine on Ubuntu with very minor massaging. I don't
>     > recall having to do anything extremely out of the ordinary.
>     > For me the fun was in emulating a Sun 3/80 I used to have. If you like,
>     > I can dig it up my TME install. Haven't used it in a while.
> 
>       If you can find any notes that you my have taken on what it took to
>     get it running, I'd very much appreciate that.  I hacked on it for a bit
>     earlier this year, but ran out of time and eventually gave up.
> 
>                   -Dave
> 
>     -- 
>     Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>     New Kensington, PA
> 
> 

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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