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From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham)
Subject: [TUHS] Whence 1st Edition Unix Kernel Assembly?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:44:56 -1000 (HST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0804240643260.20990@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4810B69F.1000500@bitsavers.org>

> Tim Newsham wrote:
>>> What about a community effort?
>
> I went back into the archive and rescanned the entire document at 400dpi
> uncompressed 8bits/pixel. Someone I know has been working on an OCR program
> optimized for printouts, I'm hoping to get him interested.

That would be great and would make the effort much easier!

> What would be more interesting is recovering the original program 
> documentation
> which appeared in the same document, but is very light. There was also the
> original hand-written version from Jan-Mar 1972 which I also scanned.

I'm much more interested in reconstructing a running system, myself.
The documentation is great to have, but its already readable (although
not searchable) in the current pdf.  At least in most places (there are
some really faded sections).

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/



  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-24 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-23  6:03 Warren Toomey
2008-04-23  6:07 ` Warren Toomey
2008-04-23 18:27   ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24  0:07     ` Warren Toomey
2008-04-24  1:57       ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24  6:04         ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24 16:34           ` Al Kossow
2008-04-24 16:44             ` Tim Newsham [this message]
2008-04-24 17:07               ` Tim Bradshaw
2008-04-24 17:16                 ` Al Kossow
2008-04-24 17:27                   ` Michael Kerpan
2008-04-24 17:30                     ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-24 17:35                       ` lyricalnanoha
2008-04-24 18:15                       ` ckeck
2008-04-24 18:40                         ` Al Kossow
2008-04-24 18:57                           ` M. Warner Losh
2008-04-24 19:02                             ` Larry McVoy
2008-04-24 18:44                         ` Milo Velimirovic
2008-04-24 21:39                       ` Peter Jeremy
2008-04-25  6:27                         ` Wilko Bulte
2008-04-24 17:38                     ` Wilko Bulte
2008-04-24 18:39                       ` Milo Velimirovic
2008-04-24 19:35                         ` John Foust
2008-04-24 17:45                     ` Al Kossow
2008-04-24 18:07                     ` John Cowan
     [not found] <200804241753.KAA02899@mist.magic.com>
2008-04-28 10:48 ` Warren Toomey
2008-04-28 16:52   ` Tim Newsham
2008-04-28 14:15 James A. Markevitch

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