From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:07:36 +1000
Subject: [TUHS] Whence 1st Edition Unix Kernel Assembly?
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:27:59AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
> >Humph, I should always delay 5 minutes before e-mailing :-) I just
> >found it at bitsavers:
> >http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bellLabs/unix/PreliminaryUnixImplementationDocument_Jun72.pdf
> 
> wow, I didn't know that so much of the system was still around somewhere.
> Has anyone started work on typing it in and trying to get a system
> built?

I thought about it a while back, but the potential for OCR errors is high,
and so too the frustration level. I'd say, only if someone was to fund the
work :-)
 
> How complementary are these listings with the "1972_stuff" on TUHS?

the s2 tape in the PDP-11/Distributions/research/1972_stuff area contains
userland binaries and libraries from 1972, so there's a strong possibility
that the kernel in the PDF document would be able to execute the binaries.

Cheers,
	Warren