29 Apr
2008
29 Apr
'08
4:49 a.m.
I just thought I'd make a quick list of what we have at our disposal, apart
from the humans that is :)
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bellLabs/unix/PreliminaryUnixImplementationDoc…
- the 1972 kernel on paper, currently being OCR'd in
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/1stEdman.html
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v3/v3man.t…
- manuals for 1st and 3rd Edition UNIX. I have 2nd Ed on paper, and
I'll scan it in.
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/1972_stuff/
- binaries from around 1972 in the s2.tar.gz tarball.
- fragment of source code from 1972 in s1-fragments.tar.gz.
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Early_C_Compilers/
- early C compiler source, known to be working and can
recompile itself. The last1120c.tar.gz is probably the
one best suited to the 1972 kernel.
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Emulators/Apout/
- Apout, an emulator which can actually run the 1972 binaries.
This means we can use the 1972 tools to help reconstruct the system.
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
- Bob Supnik's simh emulator, which we can use to boot the kernel
once it's typed in and assembled
Cheers,
Warren