2 Feb
2017
2 Feb
'17
11:49 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Tony Duell <ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:38 PM, william degnan
<billdegnan at gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
UNIX
I am just wondering where on earth you'd find an RL02 in 1974.
-tony
You wouldn't ... so what I am saying is the issues associated with getting
UNIX running on a PDP 11/40 would have been addressed on the RK05 version,
a drive that was available then. Further, it'd be easier in my opinion to
port *that* version, the RK05 version to RL02 rather than fix a vanilla
UNIX 6 and port that to RL02.
b
>
>
> On 2/2/17 11:32 AM, william degnan wrote:
> > All this talk about compatibility...was there ever UNIX made for the
PDP
> > 11/40 and RL02, or was it only run on
RK05? Wouldn't all of the C and
> wake
> > calls, etc issues have been solved then? Why is this an issue now?
I am
> > largely ignorant to the details but from
20000 feet it would seem like
> this
> > would have been taken care of long ago. No need for pre-processing
code,
etc. Please educate me if I am wrong, just curious.
Bill Degnan
DEC V7m comes to mind.
Yes, but in 1974 that was not an option. I guess the 74-77 version of