[TUHS] PDP-7 UNIX filesystem

Christopher Browne cbbrowne at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 12:00:55 AEST 2019


On Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 10:16 PM Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>
>
> On Oct 21, 2019, at 19:58, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Maybe that was a typo for 'mkdir as a system call'? (I recall having to do
> a
> fork() to execute 'mkdir', back when.) But 4.2 had mkdir().
>
>
> I believe, it was 4.2 (or 4.1c) according to David Tilbrook's paper on
> rename. The site qef.com seems to have disappeard, but the wayback
> machine has  copies[1]
>

Timing being everything, I happily have a copy of it all, as I used wget to
pull it into a git repo.

It's doubtless not in "native" form as he used one of his little languages
(that were part of qef) to generate it.  But HTML isn't too bad for this.
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