Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:02:15 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) |
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> 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 >
Ah yes! No shouting match it WAS RT-11 (all the DEC stuff sounds the same, they all had PIP)!
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.128 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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