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SubjectRe: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote:

> unix never ran on an 8
> it was originally developed (in assembler) on a 7
> when the moved from the 7 to the 11/45 they rewrote it in c
> now - what i don't know is how the c compiler was bootstrapped
> i have vague recollections that the first c compiler was written in bcpl (which was
> an interpreter written in assembler)
>
> i'll ask
> --
> simon

And I remember that it was an 11/45 not a /24 ... it has been so long ago.
I have not touched DEC hardware in nearly 20 years. I thought it did run
on an 8, though ... oh, well. Never got the chance to see a 7, only
6's, 8's, and 11's and then VAX. Most of my work at that time was on Data
General systems anyway.


George Bonser

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