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> Operating Systems. I have at home Edsger Dijkstra's source code for the operating system he wrote in 1965. Nobody has looked at it, and we should. I'd love t
by User23 6y ago
> Operating Systems. I have at home Edsger Dijkstra's source code for the operating system he wrote in 1965. Nobody has looked at it, and we should.
I'd love to see this. Please put it on your webpage Dr. Knuth!
- guidoism 6y agoI was going to say the same thing but it’s probably a cardboard box filled with paper. Somebody who understands the stuff needs to spend the time to go through it and scan it and catalog it. And given the time crunch for the test of Vol 4, not to mention the rest I don’t want Knuth doing it.
- svat 6y agoSomeone (Randall Neff) from the Computer History Museum has scanned a lot of the documents from Knuth's personal collection; search for "Dijkstra" on this page: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_X4100/PDF_index/KnuthDigitalArchive-Index.html https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don... The following document is labelled as the source code (the OS was called "THE"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=THE_multiprogramming_system&oldid=979514733 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=THE_multiprogramm...): https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_X4100/PDF_index/k-1-pdf/k-1-C1063.6-source-THE-os.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don... (254 pages of assembly code), but there are also other related documents listed on the page.