[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

[Erik E. Fair]

>Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:49:29 +0000
>From: segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
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>P.S. On the note of old UNIX reverse engineering ideas, is anyone aware of any early (early 80s and back) attempts to produce something akin to a C decompiler, something that could effectively analyze assembly produced by a C compiler and make a good guess as to what C made it up based on calling conventions, stack frames, known optimization techniques, etc?


Yes: Dave Pare produced a C decompiler to analyze and fix bugs in PSL's (binary distribution only) "Empire" game, and that set of tools was subsequently used to analyze the Morris Worm in 1988.

https://www.empire.cx/newssept1694.html#interview

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-experience-the-Morris-Worm/answer/Erik-Fair

	Erik Fair