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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Scan of "Edition 0" manual
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 23:02:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151130040244.GI32175@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151128232413.GA24191@www.oztivo.net>

Warren Toomey scripsit:

> It's certainly an interesting read. 

Some things that strike me particularly:

- the presence of only one execute bit (a file is either executable or
it isn't!)

- the "@" prompt of the shell

- the blocked paper tape driver

- the fact that ^\ causes an arbitrary non-shell process to core dump
if several are running and DEL (aka ^C) does not exist yet

- the fact that switches don't yet exist (and indeed when passing files
to the B interpreter one must precede them with a hyphen)

I also note the marginal "NO!" next to the statement that the second
argument to 'creat' is the file mode.  I wonder what that was about.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
"Make a case, man; you're full of naked assertions, just like Nietzsche."
"Oh, i suffer from that, too.  But you know, naked assertions or GTFO."
                        --heard on #scheme, sorta



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-30  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24  1:55 [TUHS] " Doug McIlroy
2015-11-24  2:57 ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-24  3:55   ` arnold
2015-11-24  6:41 ` Random832
2015-11-28 23:24 ` [TUHS] Scan of " Warren Toomey
2015-11-29  2:01   ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-29 14:31     ` Clem cole
2015-11-29 20:21   ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-11-29 20:40     ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2015-11-29 21:45       ` arnold
2015-11-30  4:02   ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-11-30  4:26     ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-26 14:09   ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-26 23:15     ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-26 23:46       ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-29 17:51 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2015-11-29 20:00 ` Warren Toomey
     [not found] <mailman.3.1448845201.3730.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
     [not found] ` <353E052F-541F-47C1-9ACF-587EB9EC6088@mcjones.org>
2015-11-30  9:06   ` Warren Toomey
2015-12-01 21:48     ` Random832
2015-12-01 22:29       ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-02  0:44         ` Random832
2015-12-02 17:21           ` shawn wilson
2015-12-02 18:32             ` Random832
2015-12-08 18:20 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-08 18:47 ` Charles Anthony
2015-12-08 18:57 ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-08 19:16 ` John Cowan
2016-01-27  3:01 Doug McIlroy

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