[Simh] pdp11 and unix

[Eric Smith]

Well .. impressive, I suppose, would be what I would call it.

I guess you'd start with hand-keying in an assembler .. then go from
there.    I did that once in BASIC on a machine for which I could not
obtain an assembler (Epson HX-20).

It would be interesting to know how they went from B to C .. but once
they had a higher level language (C .. well, higher level compared to
the assembler), things would become much easier.

I was corresponding with DMR a couple of years before his passing.  He
signed his C book for me.  If he were still around it would be cool to
loop him in on this stuff and just ask.

> On Feb 26, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-02-26 23:47, Eric Smith wrote:
>> I love assembly.  I do.   But seriously …
>>
>>> 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?
>
>    Johnny
>
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