11 May
2014
11 May
'14
11:21 p.m.
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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