[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 145, Issue 102

[Larry Baker]

Eric,

I assume you know about The Bell System Journal, July–August 1978, Part 2, special edition on The Unix Time-Sharing System.  There are many papers which cover the evolution and symbiosis of Unix and C.

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
baker at usgs.gov



On 26 Feb 2016, at 3:43 PM, <simh-request at trailing-edge.com> <simh-request at trailing-edge.com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:43:00 -0600
> From: Eric Smith <esmithmail at gmail.com>
> To: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
> Cc: "simh at trailing-edge.com" <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix
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> 
> 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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