[TUHS] v7 upgrade

[Mirian Crzig Lennox]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:06:28 +1000, Rhys Weatherley <rweather at zip.com.au> wrote:
>
>I've been lurking here for a week or two, reading the
>archives on porting v7 to x86, etc.
>
>Perhaps it is a bit "sacrilegious", but I believe it makes
>the code more accessible for experimentation, and it
>should solve the "how do we get a PDP-11 compiler"
>problem: we use the original hosted on top of a modern
>kernel as a cross-compiler.

I don't believe it is sacrilegious at all.  The triumph of UNIX has
always been that it's the software that really matters, not the
hardware.

--Mirian