diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 963b4cc..0559195 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,6 @@ # pdp7-unix -A project to resurrect Unix on the PDP-7 from a scan of the original assembly code +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 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.