From: mirian@cosmic.com (Mirian Crzig Lennox)
Subject: [TUHS] v7 upgrade
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:51:46 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrna74t4i.ts9.mirian@trantor.cosmic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C71CF44.18D0BDA1@zip.com.au>
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:06:28 +1000, Rhys Weatherley <rweather at zip.com.au> wrote:
>
>I've been lurking here for a week or two, reading the
>archives on porting v7 to x86, etc.
>
>Perhaps it is a bit "sacrilegious", but I believe it makes
>the code more accessible for experimentation, and it
>should solve the "how do we get a PDP-11 compiler"
>problem: we use the original hosted on top of a modern
>kernel as a cross-compiler.
I don't believe it is sacrilegious at all. The triumph of UNIX has
always been that it's the software that really matters, not the
hardware.
--Mirian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-19 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-19 4:06 Rhys Weatherley
2002-02-19 7:06 ` Warren Toomey
2002-02-19 8:01 ` Rhys Weatherley
2002-02-19 15:51 ` Mirian Crzig Lennox [this message]
2002-02-19 21:19 Al Kossow
2002-02-19 23:58 ` M E Leypold @ labnet
2002-08-08 23:16 ` Mike Haertel
2002-08-08 23:49 ` Warren Toomey
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