From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:07:07 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Whence 1st Edition Unix Kernel Assembly? In-Reply-To: References: <20080423060356.GA88398@minnie.tuhs.org> <20080423060721.GA92411@minnie.tuhs.org> <20080424000736.GA48312@minnie.tuhs.org> <4810B69F.1000500@bitsavers.org> Message-ID: <143F6603-5D78-4C0E-B159-F421657356C9@tfeb.org> > > I'm much more interested in reconstructing a running system, myself. > The documentation is great to have, but its already readable (although > not searchable) in the current pdf. At least in most places (there > are > some really faded sections). I think it's fascinating that we may end up with a working first edition Unix which has been *typed in by hand in 2008*. None of the bits will actually be the original ones. Borges would be proud ("Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is the story I am thinking of). If anyone is looking for volunteers I would have a go at typing bits in, but I do not know how much time I'm likely to have. --tim