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<oriansj>janneke: we probably could just ask siraben to change the default flags for you
<oriansj> just msg ChanServ FLAGS #bootstrappable to see the current flags for users on the channel
<muurkha>I just read through a Unix manual from 01971 and listed some of the simplifications it has over modern Unixes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34814348
<muurkha> https://github.com/aap/b a B compiler
<muurkha>also, relatedly, some notes on the history of break()/brk()/sbrk() https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34821683
<muurkha> http://squoze.net/B/ mentions that the PDP-7 actually did use the instruction set design approach we were talking about the other day: the instruction words were wider than the address bus (18 bits and 13 bits respectively)
<oriansj>muurkha: interesting, so in someways builder-hex0 is superior to unixv6
<muurkha>this is unixv1
<muurkha>but it would hardly be surprising if builder-hex0 were superior to unixv6 ;)