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====== Bringing PDP-7 Unix Back to Life ====== | ====== Bringing PDP-7 Unix Back to Life ====== | ||
- | A few months back I found out that Norman Wilson had been sitting on a bunch of documents that had PDP-7 Unix source code. Argh! I knew that Dennis Ritchie had these documents, but I'd assumed that they had been lost or disposed of when dmr passed away. But Norman had made photocopies of them. | + | A few months back I found out that Norman Wilson had been sitting on a bunch of documents that had PDP-7 Unix source code. Argh! I knew that Dennis Ritchie had these documents, but I'd assumed that they had been lost of disposed of when dmr passed away. But Norman had made photocopies of them. |
- | So Norman has scanned them in, and they are now in the [[http:// | + | So Norman has scanned them in, and they are now in the [[http:// |
- | It's only been going for about a week now, and there' | + | It's only been going for about a week now, but there' |
Overall, it's not bad progress for the first week. We've got the source to //as//, //bc//, //cat//, //ed//, //init// and a few other utilities, but the shell and utilities like //ls// are missing. We will have to rewrite these from scratch. The hard bit will be bringing the kernel up and working out what bugs are in there. This is all eerily reminiscent of the [[https:// | Overall, it's not bad progress for the first week. We've got the source to //as//, //bc//, //cat//, //ed//, //init// and a few other utilities, but the shell and utilities like //ls// are missing. We will have to rewrite these from scratch. The hard bit will be bringing the kernel up and working out what bugs are in there. This is all eerily reminiscent of the [[https:// | ||
- | I wonder what things we'll find out … | + | I wonder what things we'll find out ... |
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