17 Jan
2024
17 Jan
'24
8:08 p.m.
Hi John,
At 2024-01-18T00:43:41+1100, John Gardner wrote:
I'm a professional graphic designer with access
to commercial typeface
authoring software. Send me the highest-quality and most comprehensive
scans of a C/A/T-printed document, and I'll get to work.
If you don't have my scan of CSTR #54 (1976), which helpfully dumps all
of the glyphs in the faces used by the Bell Labs CSRC C/A/T-4, let me
know and I'll send it along. I won't vouch for its high quality but it
should be comprehensive with respect to coverage.
Thanks for reminding me, Branden. :) I've yet to
get V7 Unix working
with the latest release of SimH,
Let me know in private mail where you got stuck. Maybe I can help.
I'm still up for this, assuming you've not
already started.
No, I haven't--perhaps because I am an Ada fanboy, the prospect of
coding in pre-standard C and its mission to turn anything that can be
lexically analyzed into _some_ sequence of machine instructions has not
stoked my excitement.
(Which isn't to say that one _can't_ write safe code using K&R C; my
fear is that having to remember all of the things the compiler won't do
for you would overwhelm the task at hand. Too bad Unix V7 didn't have
Perl, since this is basically a text transformation problem.)
Regards,
Branden
17 Jan
17 Jan
9:32 p.m.
New subject: Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> writes:
[snip]
(Which isn't to say that one _can't_ write
safe code using K&R C; my
fear is that having to remember all of the things the compiler won't do
for you would overwhelm the task at hand. Too bad Unix V7 didn't have
Perl, since this is basically a text transformation problem.)
Regards,
Branden
I may be very much misremembering this, but I think that Perl 3 might
exist for V7. I have very vague memories of bring up V7 in SimH and
noted that a perl binary existed there.... but it might have been 2.x
BSD...(this is actually the most likely) or something else in SimH. All
of the history says Perl 1 was created in late 1987, so V7 certainly
would have been around and I wouldn't be suprised that someone attempted
to port it. I could not find which OS Perl was an initial target for
and I didn't want to grovel though the old Usenet posts.
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
9:48 p.m.
New subject: Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff
Larry wrote it for admin help of his 4.1 BSD vaxen at NASA. (Which was
PCC based compiler K&R1 syntax). I do not remember if any one tried to
get it running on the 11 because of address space issues. As Brad says you
can check all usenet files.
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM Brad Spencer <brad(a)anduin.eldar.org> wrote:
"G. Branden Robinson"
<g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> writes:
[snip]
(Which isn't to say that one _can't_
write safe code using K&R C; my
fear is that having to remember all of the things the compiler won't do
for you would overwhelm the task at hand. Too bad Unix V7 didn't have
Perl, since this is basically a text transformation problem.)
Regards,
Branden
I may be very much misremembering this, but I think that Perl 3 might
exist for V7. I have very vague memories of bring up V7 in SimH and
noted that a perl binary existed there.... but it might have been 2.x
BSD...(this is actually the most likely) or something else in SimH. All
of the history says Perl 1 was created in late 1987, so V7 certainly
would have been around and I wouldn't be suprised that someone attempted
to port it. I could not find which OS Perl was an initial target for
and I didn't want to grovel though the old Usenet posts.
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
10:25 p.m.
New subject: Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff
https://usenet.trashworldnews.com/?thread=614089 posted February 1988
Perl Kit, Version 1.0, Copyright (c) 1987, Larry Wall
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