From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recreation of the PDP-7 UNIX TMG compiler compiler
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:06:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B1AFEB59-B09E-4EBD-AF0A-5D4EB2D85F6D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWZCVZaA6v0YYuWA5mYqKV3TY4kDWR+1aSGAFgPnHky_g@mail.gmail.com>
Original goes back to 1965, the year I was born. Crazy what they were capable of back then. Way to go Phil.
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> On Oct 14, 2021, at 11:53 AM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> Impressive indeed. And I imagine the feat will impress its brilliant
> grandparent, Bob McClure (cc'd), too.
>
> Even though I wrote that TMG way back when, I'd never have dared to
> try resuscitating it. Thank you, Phil.
>
> Doug
>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:56 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:
>>
>> Phil Budne wrote:
>>> In what is perhaps best described as a crazed act, over the past two
>>> months I've worked to recreate a working TMG environment on PDP-7
>>> UNIX, including a B compiler in TMGL, currently available at:
>>
>> Very impressive!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-14 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-13 20:53 Phil Budne
2021-10-14 15:38 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-10-14 16:53 ` Douglas McIlroy
2021-10-14 17:06 ` Will Senn [this message]
2021-11-18 19:01 ` scj
2021-10-14 22:42 ` Robert Swierczek
2021-10-15 1:21 ` Ken Thompson
2021-11-20 15:02 Douglas McIlroy
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