[Simh] pdp11 and unix

[Nigel Williams]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2016-02-26 23:47, Eric Smith wrote:
>>> On Feb 25, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Version Zero was hand coded on a PDP-7
>>
>>
>> I know Gregg is right.  But .. Can you /imagine?/
> Not sure I understand this comment either. Are you suggesting that coding an
> OS is assembler is something exceptional or complicated, or unusual?

I took "hand-coded" to mean Version Zero was (initially) done without
an assembler, they wrote down the instructions in machine code.

Perhaps not unusual for the 1960s but laborious none-the-less.