[Info-vax] Unix origins [was Re: [OT] Mentec, was: Re: OT: For MAC Lovers Only :-)]

[Rich Alderson]

billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:

> Unix started on the PDP-11 and look at what it does today.

No, it didn't.  It began life as a PDP-7 operating system which was only ported
to the PDP-11 after a couple of rounds of development (in assembler).

And so-called Version 1 Unix is the *third* version for the PDP-11, the first
in C after a couple of turns in assembler.

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