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From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: Phil Budne <phil@ultimate.com>,
	TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>,
	 Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recreation of the PDP-7 UNIX TMG compiler compiler
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:53:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiWZCVZaA6v0YYuWA5mYqKV3TY4kDWR+1aSGAFgPnHky_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wy26vpqeq.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

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!

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-14 16:54 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 [this message]
2021-10-14 17:06     ` Will Senn
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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