[TUHS] PDP-11 questions

Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
Mon Jan 25 15:32:18 AEST 2016


Implementing Unix on a PDP-11/34, Dave Horsfall, AUUGN 1(6) pg 17, September 1979, see http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V01.6.pdf
Cheers, Warren

On 25 January 2016 1:16:22 pm AEST, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Clem Cole wrote:
>
>> We have a very early serial # 11/34 under 10 IIRC in the EE Dept at
>CMU 
>> (One of my claims to fame was bring UNIX up on it for the first time
>- 
>> by hacking the 11/40 support - although I think Noel and few others
>did 
>> it in other places too there after).  
>
>[ Warning: self-promotion ahead ]
>
>I believe that I was the first to port Unix (V6) to the 11/34 in 
>Australia; there should be a paper that I wrote, somewhere in the 
>archives.  I was not aware of any prior work at the time, although 
>subsequently a couple of bods came out to say that they'd beaten me to
>it 
>(then why didn't they publish?).
>
>In the words of the inimitable Tom Lehrer: "I publish first!".
>
>-- 
>Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will
>suffer."

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