Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:36:49 -0500 (EST) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | [OFFTOPIC] Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) |
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > Unix was built on a Digital PDP-11/34, using tools available > > in the RSX-11 Digital Operation system. Most of the 'hardware stuff' > > was done in DEC MACRO Assembly under RSX-11. > > scuse me but the first Unix I saw was running on a PDP-8. It might have Huuuhh??? ITYM -7. PDP-8 port of UNIX would be something... > originated on a PDP-6. Unix was written in C from the start according to Really? -6 was 36bit beast and porting from it to 18bit -7 would be majestic pain in ass. Not to mention the fact that -8 was 12bit. > all the documentation I have read. Also, I saw Unix running on PDP systems You probably read pretty strange documentation. The first version more or less rewritten into C was v4.
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