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wssimms wrote:
> On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 2:52:40 PM UTC+9, Nicola wrote:
>> On 2016-03-20 08:12:35 +0000, wssimms@gmail.com said:
>> > 
>> > I am porting 6th Edition Unix to the Apple IIe. I plan to port
>> > everything: kernel, filesystem, and all of userland, including C,
>> > Fortran, dc, nroff, etc.
>> 
>> This is fantastic news! From the video it looks pretty good! Can't
>> wait to see how it works out. Are you using Lions's book as your
>> reference or something else?
> 
> I'm mainly using the source code available at:
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl
> 
> I have consulted the Lions book a few times but
> I don't find it to be a great primary source. Most of it's
> explanations are fairly elementary.
> 

Are you documenting your code and deviations from PDP Unix as you go, or do
you plan to do that later?