Hey Warren, you know what they say: wish in one hand, do something
else in the other.... :-)
Speaking of wishing: any news from Mr. Ritchie on PDP-7 UNIX
fragments? We're getting closer to having our -7 running, likely
before summer here in the Other Hemisphere. BTW, do you know
anything of the whereabouts of LISP for the -7? I know it existed,
as a descendant of the PDP-1 interpreter, but I have had no luck so
far finding it. I may just write one of my own, premised on the
functionality of the -1 version, but for history's sake I'd love to
find a paper tape (or image thereof) of the original -7
implementation. Wishing in my one hand.... Cheers -- Ian
On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
As an interesting side-note, last year when we were
trying to recover
the Second Edition commands source code from the s1-bits.gz DECtape
image,
there was a leftover file which I labelled unknown.c.
The Unix tree now shows that V2 unknown.c is actually hyphen.c, which
reappears in System III:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2/cmd/unknown.c
Now, does anybody know what happened to hyphen.c between mid-1972 and
mid-1980? There is a hyphen(1) V3 manual and a hyphen(6) V4 manual.
Could it have gone off towards PWB or CB UNIX or UNIX/TS?
I wish we could get copies of CB UNIX or UNIX/TS or MERT :-S
Cheers,
Warren
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