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 ====== Bringing PDP-7 Unix Back to Life, part 2 ====== ====== Bringing PDP-7 Unix Back to Life, part 2 ======
  
-Wow! I'm really impressed with the speed at which the PDP-7 Unix restoration\\ +Wow! I'm really impressed with the speed at which the PDP-7 Unix restoration team has got things up and going. My user-mode simulator is going well. Phil Budne has taken over the care of the assembler, and he's also written a shell. I've written tools to make, populate and check the filesystem.
-team has got things up and going. My user-mode simulator is going well. Phil\\ +
-Budne has taken over the care of the assembler, and he's also written a\\ +
-shell. I've written tools to make, populate and check the filesystem.+
  
-The kernel came up surprisingly easily, much easier than the 1972 PDP-11\\ +The kernel came up surprisingly easily, much easier than the 1972 PDP-11 kernel. I think we've found only one or two transcription errors. We did have to comment out some code that deals with the "Graphics-2" device, as SimH doesn't simulate this (yet: Phil's working on it).
-kernel. I think we've found only one or two transcription errors. We did\\ +
-have to comment out some code that deals with the "Graphics-2" device,\\ +
-as SimH doesn't simulate this (yet: Phil's working on it).+
  
-Once we deduced the format of the password file, init let's us log in\\ +Once we deduced the format of the password file, init let's us log in and here is what we see:
-and here is what we see:+
  
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