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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-21, Rich Alderson <news at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
> 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.)
>

Yes, oops. :-) Somebody already reminded me about this a few days ago
and as I pointed out in response this just shows how much more portable
things are when you are using an implemention language not tied to the
architecture.

Simon.

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