Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 1998 18:19:17 +0200 (EET) | From | Tuukka Toivonen <> | Subject | Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) |
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offtopic but...
>> sufficiently successful to gain the interest of the other author and several >> colleagues, and later to justify the aquisition of the PDP-11/20, specifically to >> support and text editing and formatting system. When in turn the PDP-11/20 was >> outgrown, the system had proven useful enought to pursuade management to invest in >> the PDP-11/45, and later in the PDP-11/70 and Interdata 8/32 machines, upon which >> it developed to its present form" > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >The "text editing and formatting system" references the first 'C' >compiler. Even now, 'C' code runs in the "text" segment.
My paper tells that the PDP-11/20 which replaced PDP-7 was needed for preparing patent papers for Bell patent department, and that the text formatting system was roff (later nroff).
(my paper written in Finnish is at http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/releases.html and I got the information most probably from Bourne, S. R. 1983: The UNIX System. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts.)
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