13 Nov
2001
13 Nov
'01
1:02 a.m.
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 01:31 PM, Ian King wrote:
Derrik, you're missing the point: what's the
fun of doing it the easy
way? :-) Seriously, though, I think you'd have a couple of serious
problems: the assembly language components (which are not inconsiderable
in V6) would need to be rewritten, and then there's also the question of
whether you could find a sufficiently "undisciplined" C compiler to
handle pre-ANSI C, to build the rest of the system.
Actually, I like playing with emulators - they use a LOT less power than
real computers :)
HP-UX comes with a REAL K&R c compiler that wont handle ANY ANSI stuff.
It's used to rebuild the kernel, but you can use it to build K&R C
programs too. That should be usable for the kernel C routines and
utilities. But as you pointed out, the assembly stuff you have to be
rewritten. Also, you'd have to deal with disk and tty drivers.
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