[Simh] [simh] Unix version 1 on SIMH

[Lyle Bickley]

On Monday 22 June 2009, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Those of you interested in the history of computers, and Unix, may
> find interesting these new Web resources about the reconstruction of a
> working version of Unix version 1 (1969--1973):
> 
>         http://minnie.tuhs.org/Z/toomey.mov
>         http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf
>         http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix09/tech/slides/toomey.pdf
> 
> Note the duplicate filenames of the last two URLs.
> 
> This effort is significant, because it was believed until recently
> that the early versions of Unix had been lost.
> 
> The work is based on an extension of SIMH to support the PDP-11
> model used in early Unix development.

Excellent! Thanks for the post. I've run early BSD on my 11/34C - but it's so great to see the original UNIX "revived"!

Thanks for the post!!!

Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
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