On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
I'm not sure that anything actually used the fact that 407 was 'br .+020', by
the V6 era; I think it was just left over from older Unixes (where it was not
in fact stripped on loading). Not just on executables running under Unix; the
boot-loader also stripped it, so it wasn't even necessary to strip the a.out
header off /unix.

​If you look at the first edition code that Warren has, that seems to support it.

Clem​