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--- systems:pdp7_unix [2019/12/01 12:08] – Added a link to the Multicians web site for Multics information frank
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 **Release Date:** Developed from mid-1969 to the end of 1970\\
 **Released By:** Never released outside of Bell Labs\\
-**Source Code: Partially reconstructed from original listings [[https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix]]**\\
+**Source Code:** [[https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix|Reconstructed from original listings]]\\
-**Documentation: Partially reconstructed from original listings [[https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix]]**
+**Documentation:** [[https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix|Reconstructed from original listings]]
 Ken Thompson began the development of the system that was to become Unix, first as a file system on paper and then on a "little-used PDP-7" (Dennis Ritchie, [[https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html|The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System]]).
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 ===== Extant PDP-7 Unix Source Code =====
-The only extant source code from the PDP-7 version of Unix appears to be the source code to the //dsw//  command that Dennis [[http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/pups/1999-November/000139.html|posted on the net.unix-wizards]] Usenet newsgroup in 1984. He wrote:
+For many years, the only extant source code from the PDP-7 version of Unix appeared to be the source code to the //dsw//  command that Dennis [[http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/pups/1999-November/000139.html|posted on the net.unix-wizards]] Usenet newsgroup in 1984. He wrote:
 I happened to dredge up an old notebook and found a listing of the PDP-7 version of dsw. Because several people have approached me recently about reviving a version of PDP-7 Unix as a sort of paleontological exhibit, and because the subject has been discussed here, I thought people might be interested in seeing the code. I first considered net.sources, but decided not to carry whimsy too far.
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 In October 2009, Dennis sent Warren Toomey a private e-mail that said "In other news, I have found the book that has the [PDP-7] listings that I knew I had, that of (some) of the user-level commands. I wonder what's the best way to get it scanned?". Unfortunately, Dennis passed away before he could get the listings scanned in.
+In 2016, [[https://www.teach.cs.toronto.edu/~norman/pers/index.html|Norman Wilson]] discovered a set of paper copies PDP-7 Unix listings he had done while he worked at Bell Labs.  Warren Toomey organized [[https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix|a project to attempt to resurrect PDP-7 Unix]] with source code derived from scans of the listings.  The listings were partial, but there was enough to create a system that would boot and run.
+October 2019 saw another notebook of listings discovered (by Dennis Ritchie's heirs?).  Those were scanned, proofread and corrected, creating a more complete and original PDP-7 Unix.  A month later, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvaPaWyiuLA|Living Computer Museum bootstrapped the reconstructed operating system on renovated PDP-7 hardware]].
 ===== PDP-9 Unix =====