On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
Hi all. Some of you may know me as the guy who set up
the Unix Heritage
Society at
www.tuhs.org. We've been able to restore some of the old Unix
systems to working order, including a PDP-11/20 version from 1972.
I've just been given a scan of the assembly listing for PDP-7 Unix
which includes the kernel and some user-mode programs. The scans are
at
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/
as the files 0*.pdf.
I have this crazy idea that this system could be resurrected to working
order on SimH and/or on a real PDP-7. But I'd a) need to learn the PDP-7
architecture, b) write an assembler, c) OCR the scan (manually) and
d) spend a lot of time debugging something that has no user manual and
may not even work!
I thought I'd ask here if there is any PDP-7 expertise that I could lean
on if I decided to actually proceed.
Many thanks in advance for pointers, suggestions, help.
Warren
P.S I've already found
http://www.soemtron.org/pdp7.html
the PDP-7 Reference Manual f75ppdp7prelimumdec64.pdf and
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp7/`
I did some work with the running PDP-7 at LCM, and Warren let me know this
data was available. Unfortunately I have some other commitments right now,
but I'll get there... I'm very excited about this. -- Ian
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The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
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Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
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