From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Work I've done with a PDP-11 simulator
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 18:58:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140511015854.GA15678@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140511012756.GU17946@mercury.ccil.org>
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 09:27:56PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Larry McVoy scripsit:
>
> > At Sun this was called "make bootstrap" but I bet that predates Sun. The
> > bootstrap process, as I remember it, had the compiler build the compiler,
> > then the new compiler built the kernel and userland, then there was an
> > install step, and presto, you were running on bits you had built yourself.
> > All of them.
>
> Well, provided the compiler is honest, contra Dennis.
With all due respect (and I'm not trolling John, I've got respect for you)
I think it was Ken.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
/me misses the days where it was all about what the bell labs guys would do
next. Those were fun. These days it seems like we all have to try and hope
google isn't going to be really evil. Wasn't it more fun when it was about
science?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-11 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-11 0:51 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 0:57 ` Larry McVoy
2014-05-11 1:27 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11 1:58 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2014-05-11 2:40 ` John Cowan
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2014-05-12 19:10 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-12 20:59 ` SPC
2014-05-12 17:06 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-12 17:20 ` SPC
2014-05-12 19:50 ` John Cowan
2014-05-12 14:49 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 23:13 Norman Wilson
2014-05-12 5:29 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11 16:16 Norman Wilson
2014-05-11 16:45 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11 22:19 ` pechter
2014-05-11 3:26 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 3:13 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 4:20 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11 2:06 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-11 2:31 ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-11 2:34 ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-11 17:21 ` Clem Cole
2014-05-11 17:24 ` Clem Cole
2014-05-11 18:50 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-05-05 15:32 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-04 23:54 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-05 1:53 ` John Cowan
2014-05-05 8:10 ` SPC
2014-04-30 2:19 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-03 22:14 ` SPC
2014-05-03 22:20 ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-03 22:22 ` Larry McVoy
2014-05-05 13:50 ` Kurt H Maier
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