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THE EARLIEST UNIX CODE: AN ANNIVERSARY SOURCE CODE RELEASE http://bit.ly/31pWcvM Cheers, Lyle -- 73 NM6Y Bickley Consulting West Inc. https://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
On 17 Oct 2019 12:29 -0700, from lbickley@bickleywest.com (Lyle Bickley): > THE EARLIEST UNIX CODE: AN ANNIVERSARY SOURCE CODE RELEASE > http://bit.ly/31pWcvM https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-earliest-unix-code-an-anniversary-source-code-release/ -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:21:05PM -0700, Lyle Bickley wrote: > THE EARLIEST UNIX CODE: AN ANNIVERSARY SOURCE CODE RELEASE > http://bit.ly/31pWcvM Thanks Lyle. Yay, one of the two artifacts I've been waiting for has dropped. This is the second half of the PDP-7 source code "book", of which we've only had the first half from Norman Wilson. We now have the source to Space Travel, plus roff and sh, for the PDP-7! I've broken the single PDF from CHM into several sections and put them here: https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/ 09-1-35.pdf user-mode programs: maths functions, ln, ls, moo,nm 10-36-55.pdf user-mode programs: pool game 11-56-91.pdf user-mode programs: pd, psych, rm, rn, roff, salv, sh 12-92-119.pdf user-mode programs: space travel 13-120-147.pdf user-mode programs: stat, tm, t (B interpreter?) 14-148-165.pdf user-mode programs: ttt, un We may also have the B interpreter, but I'm not sure about that. Cheers all, Warren
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1138 bytes --] On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 2:45 PM Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:21:05PM -0700, Lyle Bickley wrote: > > THE EARLIEST UNIX CODE: AN ANNIVERSARY SOURCE CODE RELEASE > > http://bit.ly/31pWcvM > > Thanks Lyle. Yay, one of the two artifacts I've been waiting > for has dropped. This is the second half of the PDP-7 source > code "book", of which we've only had the first half from > Norman Wilson. > > We now have the source to Space Travel, plus roff and sh, for > the PDP-7! > > I've broken the single PDF from CHM into several sections and > put them here: > > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/ > > 09-1-35.pdf user-mode programs: maths functions, ln, ls, moo,nm > 10-36-55.pdf user-mode programs: pool game > 11-56-91.pdf user-mode programs: pd, psych, rm, rn, roff, salv, sh > 12-92-119.pdf user-mode programs: space travel > 13-120-147.pdf user-mode programs: stat, tm, t (B interpreter?) > 14-148-165.pdf user-mode programs: ttt, un > > We may also have the B interpreter, but I'm not sure about that. > Have these been OCR'd yet? Or just the scans? Warner [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1791 bytes --]
No OCRs yet. Warren
On 18 October 2019 8:39:34 am AEST, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 2:45 PM Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> wrote:
>> This is the second half of the PDP-7 source
>> code "book", of which we've only had the first half from
>> Norman Wilson.
>>
>> We now have the source to Space Travel, plus roff and sh, for
>> the PDP-7!
>Have these been OCR'd yet? Or just the scans?
>
>Warner
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 06:44:38AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > We now have the source to Space Travel, plus roff and sh, for > the PDP-7! > I've broken the single PDF from CHM into several sections. A few people have asked me if the scans have been OCR'd yet. The answer is no. Also, the input is not easily recognisable with automated OCR technology: I've already tried. We will have to hand transcribe the files as we did with the first half. There is already a PDP7 Unix mailing list from the past resurrection effort. If you'd like to join and help out with the transcribing, please e-mail me and I'll add you to the list. The list archive is: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/pdp7-unix/ Cheers, Warren
Thanks for all of your effort Mr. Bickley!
From Your biggest “fan!”
Truly,
Bill Corcoran
> On Oct 17, 2019, at 4:38 PM, Lyle Bickley <lbickley@bickleywest.com> wrote:
>
> THE EARLIEST UNIX CODE: AN ANNIVERSARY SOURCE CODE RELEASE
> http://bit.ly/31pWcvM
>
> Cheers,
> Lyle
> --
> 73 NM6Y
> Bickley Consulting West Inc.
> https://bickleywest.com
>
> "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
I didn't do all the work - I'm just a volunteer and "messenger" from the Computer History Museum (CHM). The real work was done by David C. Brock, who is a historian of technology and director at the CHM Software History Center. Cheers, Lyle -- On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 04:52:17 +0000 William Corcoran <wlc@jctaylor.com> wrote: > Thanks for all of your effort Mr. Bickley! > > From Your biggest “fan!” > > Truly, > > Bill Corcoran > > > On Oct 17, 2019, at 4:38 PM, Lyle Bickley <lbickley@bickleywest.com> wrote: > > > > THE EARLIEST UNIX CODE: AN ANNIVERSARY SOURCE CODE RELEASE > > http://bit.ly/31pWcvM > > > > Cheers, > > Lyle > > -- > > 73 NM6Y > > Bickley Consulting West Inc. > > https://bickleywest.com > > > > "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero" -- 73 NM6Y Bickley Consulting West Inc. https://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
Warren Toomey wrote: > We now have the source to Space Travel Is it here, and if so, which pages? https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/09/102785108-05-001-acc.pdf
>> We now have the source to Space Travel
> Is it here, and if so, which pages?
Oh, the PDF is searchable. Very nice. Page 109.
Warren Toomey wrote:
> Warner Losh wrote:
>>> We now have the source to Space Travel, plus roff and sh, for the
>>> PDP-7!
>>Have these been OCR'd yet? Or just the scans?
> No OCRs yet. Warren
What is everyone's experience with source code OCR? I have tried it a
few times, and the resutls haven't been that good. In my experience
it's about as much effort as typing it manually.
I'm working on a GRAPHICS-2 simulation so we can run Space Travel.
Obviously I'd like a machine readable version of the program. However,
I'm not volunteering to do all the typing myself.
Warren Toomey wrote: > 11-56-91.pdf user-mode programs: pd, psych, rm, rn, roff, salv, sh My attention is drawn to "salv". Clem Cole wrote in 2016: > The original FS tools for UNIX icheck/dcheck/ncheck were very crude. > TSS and MTS (used a similar/same FS format) and and had a similar > program in the key of fsck that Ted was familiar (as did a number of > DEC systems for that matter). Ted wrote the original version of > premordial fsck for v6 at UMich (maybe v5 - Joy probably would know > what the version of UNIX was there then). Ted took "pre-fsck" to Bell > Lab the summer between Mich and CMU. [...] https://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TUHS/Mail_list/2016-April.txt There are these V2 and V3 man pages. https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v2/v2man.pdf https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man8/salv.8 I see a V3 man page for dcheck, but nothing for icheck until V6. So it appears before fsck, and before icheck etc, there was salv, the file system salvager tool. Some quick searching reveals that CTSS, Multics, and ITS all also used the term salv and/or salvager for the corresponding program, so there's ample precedent.
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 461 bytes --] El vie., 18 oct. 2019 8:00, Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> escribió: > > What is everyone's experience with source code OCR? I have tried it a > few times, and the resutls haven't been that good. In my experience > it's about as much effort as typing it manually. > I use Office Lens with my móviles. Impressive results (for good) in some moments. Cordiales saludos / Best Regards / Salutations / Freundliche Grüße ----- Sergio Pedraja [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1307 bytes --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 373 bytes --] On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 11:10 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote: > >> We now have the source to Space Travel > > Is it here, and if so, which pages? > > Oh, the PDF is searchable. Very nice. Page 109. > Searchable means at least some ocr uas happened. I have had at best mediocre results trying to ocr the cb unix file. Maybe these will be different. Warner > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 978 bytes --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1371 bytes --] +1 On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 2:41 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote: > Warren Toomey wrote: > > 11-56-91.pdf user-mode programs: pd, psych, rm, rn, roff, salv, sh > > My attention is drawn to "salv". > > Clem Cole wrote in 2016: > > > The original FS tools for UNIX icheck/dcheck/ncheck were very crude. > > TSS and MTS (used a similar/same FS format) and and had a similar > > program in the key of fsck that Ted was familiar (as did a number of > > DEC systems for that matter). Ted wrote the original version of > > premordial fsck for v6 at UMich (maybe v5 - Joy probably would know > > what the version of UNIX was there then). Ted took "pre-fsck" to Bell > > Lab the summer between Mich and CMU. [...] > > https://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TUHS/Mail_list/2016-April.txt > > There are these V2 and V3 man pages. > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v2/v2man.pdf > https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man8/salv.8 > > I see a V3 man page for dcheck, but nothing for icheck until V6. > > So it appears before fsck, and before icheck etc, there was salv, the > file system salvager tool. Some quick searching reveals that CTSS, > Multics, and ITS all also used the term salv and/or salvager for the > corresponding program, so there's ample precedent. > -- Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2219 bytes --]
On 18/10/2019, Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote: > Warren Toomey wrote: >> Warner Losh wrote: >>>> We now have the source to Space Travel, plus roff and sh, for the >>>> PDP-7! >>>Have these been OCR'd yet? Or just the scans? >> No OCRs yet. Warren > > What is everyone's experience with source code OCR? I have tried it a > few times, and the resutls haven't been that good. In my experience > it's about as much effort as typing it manually. Doug had an excellent comment on OCR: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-February/017474.html