The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn)
Subject: [TUHS] v6tar from v7 on v6, too large?
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:50:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5669D775.9010900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151210110608.Horde.vcTCqa9o3FI8EyFam_urkzp@avocado.salatschuessel.net>

[-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 883 bytes --]

On 12/10/15 4:06 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>
> John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>
>> Clem Cole scripsit:
>>
>>> ​To be fair UNIX was the naming sinner here IMO.  Unix's ld command 
>>> is the
>>> "link editor",
>>
>> I thought "ld" stood for Link eDitor.  :-)
>
> You are completely wrong! It is the load mnemonic for Z8/Z80/Z8000 
> Assembler
> to load the operand into the destination
>
>    ld r1,r2
>
> ;)
>
> Oliver

As a newb who doesn't know any better than what it seems they do, in 
keeping with the original minimalism:
"as" should have been "me" for mnemonic encoder
"ld" should have been "la" for link and assemble
and some obscure function in /usr/sys/ken/sys1.c or maybe even 
/usr/sys/dmr/sys1.c, because one guy's folder is as good as the next, 
should have been called pldr(), for program loader, which would have 
been the program 'loader'.

-Will



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-10 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-09 22:16 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09 22:31 ` Clem Cole
2015-12-09 22:47   ` John Cowan
2015-12-09 23:39     ` Steve Nickolas
2015-12-10  0:24       ` Clem Cole
2015-12-10  0:23     ` Clem Cole
2015-12-10  1:08       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-10  9:42         ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-12-10  1:19       ` John Cowan
2015-12-10 10:06     ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-12-10 19:50       ` Will Senn [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-19 13:27 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-10  4:50 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09 22:01 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09 17:50 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09 18:06 ` Will Senn
2015-12-09 14:56 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09 16:37 ` Will Senn
2015-12-09 14:24 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09 13:30 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09 14:43 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-12-09 20:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-09  5:17 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09  5:55 ` Mark Longridge
2015-12-09 11:31 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-12-09  4:53 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-09 14:38 ` Will Senn
2015-12-09 14:56   ` Clem Cole
2015-12-09 15:07     ` Clem Cole
2015-12-09 16:29       ` Will Senn
2015-12-09 14:59   ` Hellwig Geisse
2015-12-09 17:55 ` Will Senn
2015-12-09  3:33 Will Senn

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5669D775.9010900@gmail.com \
    --to=will.senn@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).