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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 " |
- | kernel. I think we've found only one or two transcription errors. We did\\ | + | |
- | have to comment out some code that deals with the " | + | |
- | as SimH doesn' | + | |
- | 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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