New subject: [pups] bitsavers document

15 Jun 2006

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 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:24:29 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Martin Lovick &lt;martin_lovick(a)yahoo.com&gt;
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 whilst looking around the bitsavers.org pdf archive, I
 found a document called
 PreliminaryUnixImplementationDocument_Jun72.pdf.
 Having had a quick scan through, it contains a source
 code listing and some commentary (lions i hear you
 say). 
No, not Lions. The author is listed on the first page as one T. R.  
Bashkow.

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  The strange thing is that all of the source code
 appears to be in assembler... 
yup. This would be an early pdp11 UNIX from the period before the  
rewrite in C.

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 whats this about? 
It appears to be a listing of an assembly language version of an  
early UNIX kernel for the pdp11 in the pages labelled E*-*; the pages  
F*-* are a commentary; G*-* is a glossary of terms used; H*-*  
contains a description of each function in the kernel with complete  
details of each function.

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 is it a comentary of PDP-7 unix? It's (Bell Labs flavor) pdp11 assembly
language.
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 regards

 Martin 
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