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From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-10 UNIX?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 08:31:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdforuA-Qtuyw9fr9BDXQ+vZ+YRgLw0ahchCwwtvT7u=RUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d90d0034-b138-4b76-c28d-865d5839613e@kilonet.net>

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:

> Was there ever a UNIX or even the thought of porting one to a PDP-10?
>
> 36-bit machine, 18-bit addresses (more on KL10 and KS10), and:
>
> *0 would return register 0 instead of a SIGSEGV ;)
>
> 8-bit bytes would have been a wasteful exercise, but you never know.
> (losing 4 bits of every 36-bit word)
>

IIRC, there was a NetBSD/pdp10. Don't know how far it got.

The instructor of my first C course in college wrote a very good C compiler
for TOPS-10/TOPS-20.

Warner
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-17 14:28 Arthur Krewat
2017-09-17 14:31 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2017-09-17 15:01   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-17 15:22     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-18 13:50       ` Clem Cole
2017-09-18 16:42         ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-18 19:58         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-18 20:10           ` Clem Cole
2017-09-18 20:22             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-18 20:43               ` Clem cole
2017-09-19  9:06           ` Mutiny 
2017-09-19  9:56             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-17 16:33     ` Warner Losh
     [not found] <mailman.1031.1505666037.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-09-18  2:34 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-09-18 15:30   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-18 16:46     ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-18 17:25       ` Clem Cole
2017-09-18 17:40         ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-18 20:08         ` Chris Torek
2017-09-18 17:24 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-09-18 18:10 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-20  4:55   ` Warner Losh
2017-09-18 21:14 Noel Chiappa
2017-09-19  6:46 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-20 18:40 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-09-24 18:29 ` arnold

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