Re: [COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days - COFF

11 Nov 2020

On Tuesday, 10 November 2020 at 16:52:58 -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
...
  If 4.3BSD is old enough, the System
Administrator's Manual (e.g.

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/isi/bsd/490197C_Unix_4.3BS…)
 section 4.2 _et seq_.

 On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:11 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey &lt;grog(a)lemis.com&gt;
wrote:

  I'm currently reviewing a paper about Unix
and Linux, and I made the
 comment that in the olden days the normal way to build an OS image for
 a big computer was from source.  Now I've been asked for a reference,
 and I can't find one!  Can anybody help? 
 How olden days do you mean? 
Sorry, I wasn't very clear.  I was thinking commercial systems of the
1960s and 1970s, not any form of Unix.

Greg
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