From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:38:40 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped In-Reply-To: References: <1402856379.23321.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <21ae9091-baed-493a-b84f-ec96efc66955.maildroid@localhost> Message-ID: <20140617013840.GB3947@mercury.ccil.org> Gregg Levine scripsit: > I know I've seen the Star system rig before. But the Xerox Alto one is > new to me. Wasn't the PDP-7 the fellow where UNIX really got its start > on before they moved it to a PDP-11? It was. The 18-bit systems were the red-headed stepchild of the DEC world. The PDP-1, PDP-4, and PDP-7 systems had no DEC-supplied operating system, and the PDP-9 only a minimal one, about like OS/8. Not until the terminal 18-bit system, the PDP-15, were PDP-11 class operating systems provided. Consequently, the Bell Labs PDP-7 was essentially useless. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Awk!" sed Grep. "A fscking python is perloining my Ruby; let me bash him with a Cshell! Vi didn't I mount it on a troff?" --Francis Turner