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* [TUHS] MACRO-11
@ 2025-06-09 20:33 Henry Bent
  2025-06-09 21:02 ` [TUHS] MACRO-11 Warner Losh
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From: Henry Bent @ 2025-06-09 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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Hi all,

Do sources exist for a MACRO-11 assembler for UNIX?  The only package I
have found is written in MACRO-11 and relies on a provided binary to
regenerate itself; it's on the brl.pdp11 archive on the CSRG DVD.

-Henry

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* [TUHS] Re: MACRO-11
  2025-06-09 20:33 [TUHS] MACRO-11 Henry Bent
@ 2025-06-09 21:02 ` Warner Losh
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From: Warner Losh @ 2025-06-09 21:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Henry Bent; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, 2:33 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Do sources exist for a MACRO-11 assembler for UNIX?  The only package I
> have found is written in MACRO-11 and relies on a provided binary to
> regenerate itself; it's on the brl.pdp11 archive on the CSRG DVD.
>

Yes. The MACRO-11 we have is written in macro-11....

https://github.com/andpp/macro11

Is in C++, but I don’t know how good it is.

I also think the pdp11 binary is on the 2.11 tapes since Harvard LISP
depends on it. Also on different USENIX tapes.

Warner

>

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* [TUHS] Re: Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick
       [not found] ` <em972803db-6c87-40cb-9a14-9216fa09a7cf@32913395.com>
@ 2025-06-10 18:09   ` Henry Bent
  2025-06-10 19:23     ` Ron Natalie
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From: Henry Bent @ 2025-06-10 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ron Natalie; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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It's one of the hidden gems of the PDP-11 world.  I'm not clear on its
legal status so I don't know if what's there can be redistributed, but it's
an extremely mature PDP-11 OS.

-Henry

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 13:57, Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> By the way.   I’d like to thank you for mentioning the brl.pdp11
> distribution below.    I had despaired that I was never going to find a
> copy of the kernel that I cut my teeth on developing.    I was able to
> download the set from Kirk yesterday and it is destined to replace the 2.8
> BSD that I’m using oin my PiDP-11/70.
>
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
> To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
> Date 6/9/2025 4:33:10 PM
> Subject [TUHS] MACRO-11
>
> Hi all,
>
> Do sources exist for a MACRO-11 assembler for UNIX?  The only package I
> have found is written in MACRO-11 and relies on a provided binary to
> regenerate itself; it's on the brl.pdp11 archive on the CSRG DVD.
>
> -Henry
>
>

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* [TUHS] Re: Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick
  2025-06-10 18:09   ` [TUHS] Re: Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick Henry Bent
@ 2025-06-10 19:23     ` Ron Natalie
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From: Ron Natalie @ 2025-06-10 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Henry Bent; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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The JHU kernel was Version 6 (Research).   All the development was done 
by the Undergraduate Computer Society at Johns Hopkins notably:  Mike 
Muuss, Robert Jesse, me, Robert Miles, and a few others.   Mike went to 
BRL around the summer of 1979.   Any changes after that were done by BRL 
(federal) employees).   So once you have the rights for V6 there’s 
nothing really additional.   We did add the V7 file system as a switch 
but I think that wasn’t done with V7 code.




------ Original Message ------
From "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Date 6/10/2025 2:09:04 PM
Subject Re: Thank you Henry Bent and Marshal McKusick

>It's one of the hidden gems of the PDP-11 world.  I'm not clear on its 
>legal status so I don't know if what's there can be redistributed, but 
>it's an extremely mature PDP-11 OS.
>
>-Henry
>
>On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 13:57, Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>>By the way.   I’d like to thank you for mentioning the brl.pdp11 
>>distribution below.    I had despaired that I was never going to find 
>>a copy of the kernel that I cut my teeth on developing.    I was able 
>>to download the set from Kirk yesterday and it is destined to replace 
>>the 2.8 BSD that I’m using oin my PiDP-11/70.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>------ Original Message ------
>>From "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
>>To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
>>Date 6/9/2025 4:33:10 PM
>>Subject [TUHS] MACRO-11
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Do sources exist for a MACRO-11 assembler for UNIX?  The only package 
>>>I have found is written in MACRO-11 and relies on a provided binary 
>>>to regenerate itself; it's on the brl.pdp11 archive on the CSRG DVD.
>>>
>>>-Henry

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