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Updated the top-level README with current details.

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