[rescue] Screw (software) emulators!

[Dave McGuire]

On August 7, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> > Well, if one is really into masochismus type things, Dennis Ritchie was
> > looking for any V1 unix bits still extant.  He has uncovered a few.
> > I wonder if it might be possible to recreate the V1 UNIX on one of
> > these ``new'' pdp8 thingies.....(:+}}...  That would be a gas....
> 
> Cancel that... the V1 was on a PDP-7, and not a PDP-8....., oh, well....

  [ok, I'm behind on my email...so sue me]

  Unless my memory is suffering from severe bit rot, the pdp7 and pdp8
share the same instruction set.  One might need to concern oneself
with IOTs and such, but the base code should run.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD