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 [email protected] On 26 Feb 2016, at 3:43 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:43:00 -0600 > From: Eric Smith <[email protected]> > To: Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix > Message-ID: <-8605820161489367194@unknownmsgid> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 >> >> -- >> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus >> || on a psychedelic trip >> email: [email protected] || Reading murder books >> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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