From: bakul at iitbombay.org (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:01:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <756A5C2A-F2AF-4792-8A9B-5CB5DCE04AF2@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201110231118.GW99027@eureka.lemis.com>
On Nov 10, 2020, at 3:11 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> 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?
Not sure about a "big computer" but what about this paper by Richard
Miller on porting V6 to Interdata 7/32?
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Interdata/32bit/unix/univWollongong_v6/miller.pdf
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2020-11-10 23:11 grog
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2020-11-10 23:45 ` clemc
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2020-11-11 0:10 ` athornton
2020-11-11 0:12 ` athornton
2020-11-11 3:09 ` grog
2020-11-11 4:54 ` dave
2020-11-11 4:58 ` grog
2020-11-13 2:15 ` dave
2020-11-13 6:57 ` athornton
2020-11-11 2:07 ` clemc
2020-11-11 0:01 ` bakul [this message]
2020-11-11 1:26 ` dave
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2020-11-11 0:02 ` grog
2020-11-11 1:01 ` dave
2020-11-11 2:03 ` brad
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2020-11-11 3:22 ` athornton
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