[TUHS] HP 712& v6 or v7

[Derrik Walker v2.0]

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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