12 Nov
2001
12 Nov
'01
7:32 p.m.
But there's nothing like the rush of warmed, slighly phenolic air from
the cooling fans of an old minicomputer - I've noticed the furnace
doesn't kick on when the 11/34 is running. (Of course, when I flip on
the RM02s, the breaker trips....)
-- Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Derrik Walker v2.0 [mailto:firebug@apk.net]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:03 AM
To: Ian King
Cc: tuhs(a)tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] HP 712& v6 or v7
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 01:31 PM, Ian King wrote:
Derrik, you're missing the point: what's the
fun of doing it the easy
way? :-) Seriously, though, I think you'd have a couple of serious
problems: the assembly language components (which are not
inconsiderable in V6) would need to be rewritten, and then there's
also the question of whether you could find a sufficiently
"undisciplined" C compiler to handle pre-ANSI C, to build the rest of
the system.
Actually, I like playing with emulators - they use a LOT less power than
real computers :)
HP-UX comes with a REAL K&R c compiler that wont handle ANY ANSI stuff.
It's used to rebuild the kernel, but you can use it to build K&R C
programs too. That should be usable for the kernel C routines and
utilities. But as you pointed out, the assembly stuff you have to be
rewritten. Also, you'd have to deal with disk and tty drivers.
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