11 May
2014
11 May
'14
11:24 p.m.
one way to tell. do you have the standard I/o lib or the portable I/O library. the
former was first released as part of typesetter C
On May 11, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Noel
I wonder if that is the so called "Typesetter C" compiler which was released
independently of the system - you needed it compile the new troff and support for other
typesetters besides the CAT. my memory which is hazy now was that typesetter C was what
Mashey used for what would become PWB. we should ask him
Clem
On May 10, 2014, at 10:06 PM, jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote:
>> From: Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com>
>
>> have you gotten to a point where you can rebuild the world and install
>> your newly built stuff?
>
> Well, I haven't tried to do that (it's not something that I'm that
interested
> in), but it _should_ be possible, since the 'vanilla' V6 distribution does
> include the source for pretty much everything (including the C compiler,
> assembler, loader, etc).
>
>
> (This does not include the stuff from the Shoppa disk, like the new C
> compiler, where I don't have the source. [The PWB distribution, which
> includes a C compiler from 1977, is probably pretty close. Looking into
> the PWB stuff is one of my next projects; we have 17 different versions
> of that stuff, and I'd like to see what the differences among them are,
> and maybe create a 'canonical' PWB.]
>
> Also, per the 'Improvements' page, I have source for the Standard I/O
> Library, but I'm using the binary library from the Shoppa disk, which may or
> may not correspond to that source.)
>
> Noel
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