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[CM] Githubber wants to revive the first Unix in a PDP-7 emulator

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/29/githubber_wants_to_revive_the_first_unix_in_a_pdp7_emulator/

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An IT lecturer from the Australian state of Queensland wants to revive the 
very first Unix – the version written by Ken Thompson on a Digital Equipment 
Corporation PDP-7.

While the PDP-11 is probably the most famous of the series – a genuine 
watershed in computer history, and a successful system that sold 600,000 
units in its 20-year life on the market – the PDP-7 has its own place in 
history.

Its most enduring contribution to the life of the sysadmin: it was the 
machine that then Bell Labs engineer Ken Thompson wrote the first Unix on, 
in assembly language, in 1969. As the Linux Information Project notes, it 
was also DEC's first system to use a mass-storage-based operating system.

That's what Warren Toomey is working to re-create in this project.

The challenges are formidable: the original assembly language code at the 
Unix Archive isn't machine readable, the emulator needs an assembler and 
filesystem creation tool, and he writes that a shell will have to be written 
from scratch.
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[CM] Githubber wants to revive the first Unix in a PDP-7 emulator RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-03-01 08:51 +0300
  Re: [CM] Githubber wants to revive the first Unix in a PDP-7 emulator sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-03-01 01:59 -0500

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