Messages in this thread |  | | From | Steve VanDevender <> | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:43:48 -0800 | Subject | RE: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel |
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Marty Fouts writes: > Actually, you have the sequence of events slightly out of order. AT&T, > specifically Bell Labs, was one of the participants in the program that > would develop Multics. AT&T opted out of the program, for various reasons, > but it continued apace. The PDP-8 of fame was one that, according to > Thompson, happened to be available and unused.
The original system on which UNIX development started was not a PDP-8, but a PDP-7. The earliest UNIX was also written in assembler. Thompson and Ritchie developed C as a higher-level implementation language during the process of porting UNIX from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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