[Info-vax] misstatement of Unix origin [was Re: A portable VMS, was: Re: OS Ancestry]

[Rich Alderson]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

> VAX. Which is where VMS started (and 32-bit processors are where Unix
> and Linux started). It was a lot easier to get 32-bit Unix/Linux working
> on 64-bit architectures than it was VMS.

NB:  For the purposes of this discussion, Unix started on a *16*-bit
architecture.  (We'll ignore the fact that it actually started on an 18-bit
word addressed architecture.)

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