From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:11:26 +1100 Subject: [COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days In-Reply-To: References: <20201110231118.GW99027@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20201111031126.GE99027@eureka.lemis.com> On Wednesday, 11 November 2020 at 12:01:40 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> I'm currently reviewing a paper about Unix and Linux, and I made the >> comment that in the olden days the normal way to build an OS image for a >> big computer was from source. Now I've been asked for a reference, and >> I can't find one! Can anybody help? > > Depends what you mean by "olden days" and "big computer". Since clarified, of course, but you're in the right track. > As I recall we (Uni of NSW) had the source to the 360/50 and the > Cyber 72, but not for the VMS stuff; binaries were patched with > IEBUPDTE and later on SUPERZAP (possibly written locally). Was SUPERZAP source or object related? I thought the latter, but I've never come close to it. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: