On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > On 2016-02-26 23:47, Eric Smith wrote: >>> On Feb 25, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drw...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:gregg.drw...@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?
I took "hand-coded" to mean Version Zero was (initially) done without an assembler, they wrote down the instructions in machine code. Perhaps not unusual for the 1960s but laborious none-the-less. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
