[TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped

[grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)]

On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 21:38:40 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like it was crying out for somebody to write an operating
system for it :-)

Greg
--
Sent from my desktop computer.
Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key.
See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
This message is digitally signed.  If your Microsoft MUA reports
problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 196 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20140617/078da89c/attachment.sig>