Hello! By Shoppa disk do you mean, Shoppe disk, and any of the set of disks that are in the distributions portion of the site with his name on them? I've been trying to figure out how to attach them to the E11 one to bring the whole thing up. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> 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 > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

On May 11, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote: 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 > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs