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# pdp7-unix
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This is a project to resurrect Unix on the PDP-7 from a scan of the original
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assembly code done by Norman Wilson.
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Right now the scans are in the Unix Archive at
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This is a project to resurrect Unix on the PDP-7 from scans of the original assembly
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code done by Norman Wilson. The scans of PDP-7 Unix are in the Unix Archive at
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http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/
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as the files 0*.pdf. We now need to convert these to machine-readable
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assembly code, write tools such as an assembler, a filesystem creation tool,
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and write from scratch missing things like a shell, ls etc.
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as the files 0*.pdf.
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Update early March 2016: We've written an assembler, most of a user-mode
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simulator and commented several source files. We now have these utilities
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running: cat, cp, chmod, chown, chrm and ls.
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Things to do: write a filesystem creation tool, write a shell, write the
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missing utilities, try to bring the system up on a PDP-7 system. We have
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a real PDP-7 and SimH as target platforms.
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The code in the original scans are (c) Novell who own the rights to the Unix
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source code. Everything that didn't come from the scanned pages are GPLv3.
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source code. Everything that didn't come from the scanned files is GPLv3.
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scans holds the unmodified OCR versions of the scanned files
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src/sys holds the modified source code of the kernel
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src/other holds PDP-7 source code which did not come from the scanned files
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tools holds the source for the tools written to assist the project
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misc holds miscellaneous notes and information
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