From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:10:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Unix & Memory Management Units (MMU) Message-ID: <20161207171048.638D118C07B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: "Erik E. Fair" > Which version of Unix first ran on a computer with virtual addressing That would be the first version to run on the PDP-11/45; I'm not sure which one that was, there's not enough left of Version 2 or Version 3 to see; Version 4 definitely ran on the 11/45: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V4/nsys/ken/45.s > My guess from a quick look at the history of the DEC PDP-11 is that the > target computer was likely a PDP-11/35 or PDP-11/40 with a KT11-D > "memory management" module. No, they came after the -11/45 (with the KT11-C MMU). > What year did that come about? They got one of the first -11/45's, per a Unix history document I'm too busy to dig up, so 1972. Noel