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Subject: [TUHS] Re: Earliest UNIX Workstations?
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Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
>> V source code exists, right?  It seems likely W would have been
>> written in the same language as [V].  And that early X would also be
>> the same.  Another source of information would be to ask Bob
>> Scheifler and Jim Gettys.
>
> Whilst that is a reasonable assumption, I=E2=80=99m not sure it is true in
> this case. Bob Scheifler writes in 1986:
>
> "We acquired a UNIX-based version of W for the [VS1OO] (with
> synchronous communication over TCP [24] produced by Asente and Chris
> Kent at Digital=E2=80=99s Western Research Laboratory.=E2=80=9D
>
> It does not say =E2=80=9CC based=E2=80=9D, but it is quite possible that =
the Unix port
> also meant moving to C.

I checked V, and it's written in C.