From: KenUnix
things are missing:
Undefined:
_setexit
_reset
_seek
_alloc
_end
Yes, I am trying to compile it on Unix v7.
Well, there's your answer. They are all in the V6 library. Here's
the source for setexit/reset:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/source/s5/reset.s
You do realize that if you got it compiled under V7 and ran it, it would
trash the disk, right? (The V6 and V7 filesystems are different; very
similar, but block nubers are 16 bits on V6, ans 32 bits on V7.)
Is there a makefile?
No. No 'make' in V6. Which is why you find those 'run' shell files:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/source/s4/run
everywhere.
From: John Cowan
It was an update/rewrite of the MIT version.
Which one? There were two: "MIT's AI Lab", by CSTACY, Alan Wecsler, and
me;
which Rob Austein re-wrote into "Alice's PDP-10". I thought the original
was
centered around ITS, but my memory was poor (hey, it has been ~40 years :-),
it seems to sort of be about LISP Machines. Rob's version was about TWENEX
(yech). The original was written in 926, MOON's office; I can't believe he
put up with me hanging out there!
> Although I like the old story about the person at
their oral exam and
> the Coke bottle in the window.
Details?
So they're giving someone an oral exam. They can't make up their minds, or
something, and they ask the person to step out for a second. When the person
comes back in, they point to a Coke bottle sitting on a window-sill in the
sunlight, and ask them to examine it. The person notices that it's warm on
one side - the side facing the window. 'Why that side?', they ask. So the
person goes into a long explanation about how the curved glass must have
focused the light, yadda-yadda. WRONG! They turned it around while the
person was out of the room. I think that the person fails their oral. I
have no idea if it's a true story.
Steve Ward told another oral story which I'm pretty sure _is_ true, though.
They ask the candidate to design a state machine (or digital logic, I forget
which) which can tell if a number is divisible by three (I think I have the
details correct, but I'm not absolutely certain). So they describe one - and
then point out that you can feed the number in from either end (most or least
significant end first) - and proves that it will work either way! The
committee was blown away.
Noel