From: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Subject: [pups] PDP-9?
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:49:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020907014937.GH1207@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209020155.g821tUD64136@minnie.tuhs.org>
On Sunday, 1 September 2002 at 21:54:57 -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Dave Horsfall:
>
> AFAIK, Unix never ran on the 11/20 (no MM unit); did you mean a DEC-20?
>
> I don't know if it was called an 11/20 at the time (I seem to recall
> some model-number upheaval in the early days of the -11),
The 11/20 was definitely called like that in early 1970. IIRC it was
also the first PDP-11 model; it was certainly the first I heard of.
The quote below tends to reinforce this viewpoint.
> but the first PDP-11 UNIX system was certainly one without memory
> management:
>
> By the beginning of 1970, PDP-7 UNIX was a going concern ... In early
> 1970 we proposed acquisition of a PDP-11, which had just been introduced
> by Digital
Greg
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2002-09-02 1:54 Norman Wilson
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2002-09-02 1:38 ` Johnny Billquist
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