Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:14:22 -0000 (GMT) | From | Simon Kenyon <> | Subject | Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) |
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On 19-Nov-98 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > The hospitable evironment was to make a computer game.
not so much a game as a solar system simulator
> Not so. There is no way anybody could make anything run on a raw > piece of hardware. If you want to make a new operating system for > a PDP-11, you either use the tools already available that runs > on that platform or, if none exists, you have to write some tools > on another platform that does have an operating system. The tools > generated, ran under RSX-11. In fact, AT&T release 2, UNIX System V > Programmer Reference manual makes numerous references to the PDP-11 > (Eary 'C' was not all that portable), and makes comparisons to > RSX-11.
but it was not developed on a PDP-11 they used a cross assembler with ran on the Multics machine in the machine room that is why they had to get UNIX up and running in a self-hosted fashion. Their offices were 7 floors away from the paper tape punch connected to the Honeywell
> This book and it's companion "User reference manual" was my first > introduction to Unix. It was published in 1983 in AT&T Bell Laboratories. > There have been revisionist books published later.
my reference was the original BSTJ and from conversations with the protagonists
RSX-11 was definitely not around in 1971 - maybe RT-11 i really don't wish to get into a shouting match -- simon
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