Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

Toby Thain toby at telegraphics.com.au
Sat Oct 19 06:14:19 CDT 2019


On 2019-10-19 2:08 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Oct 18, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:41:51PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
>>> where as back then you made notes and paper printouts of your code
>>> that got archived in a back room.
>>
>> Until the University decided to throw it all out to use the space
>> for their new Department of Basket Weaving.
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> Reported that sort of thing is just what happened with the hand-written complete source code of the world's first ALGOL compiler -- the notebook was tossed during an office move or the like because no one present realized what it was.
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> 	paul
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> 

This is why I love hearing, so often, on these lists, "I have that
stored in the basement somewhere".

--Toby


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