Re: [gentoo-user] the origins of Unix

2010-11-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 27 November 2010 07:44:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I never want to go back to those days either :-) Oh, I don't know. I wasn't bad at Astral assembler. Mind you, nostalgia isn't what it used to be. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] the origins of Unix

2010-11-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Friday 26 November 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Friday 26 November 2010 14:32:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > One could ask the question "where did the first assembler come from?" > > > > Just as the first OSes and compilers were written in ass

Re: [gentoo-user] the origins of Unix

2010-11-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 26 November 2010 14:32:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > One could ask the question "where did the first assembler come from?" > > Just as the first OSes and compilers were written in assembler to > bootstrap C, so the first assemblers were written in hex codes to > bootstrap the assembler. But

Re: [gentoo-user] the origins of Unix

2010-11-26 Thread sam new
wow, you both did a good job , I asked lots of people and they did't say very clear, it suddenly enlightened me, thanks all. On 26 November 2010 22:32, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:09 on Friday 26 November 2010, Stroller > did > opine thusly: > > > On 26/11/2010, at

Re: [gentoo-user] the origins of Unix

2010-11-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:09 on Friday 26 November 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: > On 26/11/2010, at 6:07am, sam new wrote: > > Thanks all, I have a question , when we build the system, always use host > > client to build the toolchain , then GCC Glibc ...kernel some unity ... > > fro

Re: [gentoo-user] the origins of Unix

2010-11-26 Thread Stroller
On 26/11/2010, at 6:07am, sam new wrote: > Thanks all, I have a question , when we build the system, always use host > client to build the toolchain , then GCC Glibc ...kernel some unity ... from > source ,but where the frist system come from ,does it build using the > Assembly language or machin