On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:53:30AM -0700, James A.
Markevitch wrote:
I have been referring to this as version
"1.5" since the date is later
than the first edition manual, but before the second edition manual.
Does anyone know if it's truly V1 of the kernel, or something between
V1 and V2?
The date on the first page of the memo (PDF) is September 1972. That puts
the memo after 2nd Edition (June 1972) and 3rd Edition (Feb 1973).
However, the date at the bottom of each page of the source listing
is 3/17/72. My assumption is that the code was from that date, but that
the author of the memo spent a few months writing up the text that goes
along with it.
That's why I've been assuming that it was code somewhere between Version 1
and Version 2.
I have a photocopy of the 2nd Edition manuals from
Norman Wilson; I will
scan them in as a bunch of tiffs.
If possible, can you scan them at 400dpi or 600dpi? Those are much
more amenable to OCR than 300dpi.
Alternatively, if you can send me a hardcopy, I will scan it at 600dpi
and pass it along to bitsavers.
I'm assuming that some of you are keen to see it
running. It's going to
take a lot of work, especially on the debugging side.
I have already noticed quite a few errors in the listing, so it's not
clear that the PDF was something that actually ran, or whether it had
been re-typed by somebody. So far, many of the errors I have found are
in the "cold" portion of it, so it may be that the "warm" code will
run properly.
James Markevitch