25 Feb
2016
25 Feb
'16
8:56 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 01:43:03PM -0500, Robert Swierczek wrote:
Do you know if anybody has taken up the challenge
of transcribing and
simulating the PDP-7 Unix source code you have uncovered in your
post http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-February/006622.html
If not, I would love to get started on it as a project.
Hi Robert, yes there is a project underway to type it all in and bring it
up on SimH and hopefully on a real PDP-7. I've set up a mailing list for
the project, so let me know if you would like to join: I'll add you.
The repository is at https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix. I've started
on the S1 section (in scans/), and I've also started work on an assembler
and a user-mode simulator (in tools/)
Norman Wilson is going to try and get us some higher quality scans which
will help a great deal in deciphering some of the hard to read characters.
Cheers, Warren