Post #327289
2025-04-07 12:13 UTC
"In fact, the PDP-7’s fork call required precisely 27 lines of assembly code."
(Dennis Ritchie, 1979, "The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System")
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@dramforever@mastodon.social 2025-04-07 12:16
You've probably heard of this statement by now, but, well, until today I didn't know the source code still existed! See: - PDP-7 Unix resurrection project https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix/blob/master/src/sys/s3.s - The scanned files https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/ - The Unix Heritage Wiki https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=systems:pdp7_unix