From: iking@microsoft.com (Ian King)
Subject: [TUHS] HP 712& v6 or v7
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:32:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8D25F244B8274141B5D313CA4823F39C04147B97@red-msg-06.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> (raw)
But there's nothing like the rush of warmed, slighly phenolic air from
the cooling fans of an old minicomputer - I've noticed the furnace
doesn't kick on when the 11/34 is running. (Of course, when I flip on
the RM02s, the breaker trips....)
-- Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Derrik Walker v2.0 [mailto:firebug@apk.net]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:03 AM
To: Ian King
Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] HP 712& v6 or v7
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 01:31 PM, Ian King wrote:
> Derrik, you're missing the point: what's the fun of doing it the easy
> way? :-) Seriously, though, I think you'd have a couple of serious
> problems: the assembly language components (which are not
> inconsiderable in V6) would need to be rewritten, and then there's
> also the question of whether you could find a sufficiently
> "undisciplined" C compiler to handle pre-ANSI C, to build the rest of
> the system.
>
Actually, I like playing with emulators - they use a LOT less power than
real computers :)
HP-UX comes with a REAL K&R c compiler that wont handle ANY ANSI stuff.
It's used to rebuild the kernel, but you can use it to build K&R C
programs too. That should be usable for the kernel C routines and
utilities. But as you pointed out, the assembly stuff you have to be
rewritten. Also, you'd have to deal with disk and tty drivers.
firebug at apk.net
http://junior.apk.net/~firebug
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-12 19:32 Ian King [this message]
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2001-11-12 18:31 Ian King
2001-11-12 19:02 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2001-10-29 23:19 [TUHS] New FTP Mirror of the Unix Archive Warren Toomey
2001-11-04 20:14 ` [TUHS] HP 712& v6 or v7 Mike Allison
2001-11-07 0:34 ` Paul Hart
2001-11-12 16:28 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2001-11-12 20:15 ` Mike Allison
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