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 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 machine

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 ... from

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 alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:09 on Friday 26 November 2010, Stroller did opine thusly:

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 hex

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 assembler