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Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

>
> > How long was research running on a PDP-11 and when did they move to a VAX?
>
> London and Reiser had ported Unix to the VAX, replete with virtual memory, in 1978. By the time v7 was released (1979), Vaxen had become the workhorse machines in Research.
>
> Doug

So, what's the story on why the London/Reiser port didn't get adapted
back by Research, and they ended up starting from 4.1 BSD?

Thanks,

Arnold