From: Niklas Karlsson via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: [COFF] SOSP 1973 [was Multics<->Unix Re: Re: History of cal(1)?
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:25:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK6BEgd4NL0KUEu4QZABkUZ5oKSV_p=gfsBRhsGw5tti=RhRYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250921011253.BA763DD04BD2@ary.qy>
Den sön 21 sep. 2025 kl 03:13 skrev John Levine via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>:
> That made portability a lot easier. The only attempt I know to put Unix
> on a machine
> that didn't have 8-bit bytes was the BBN C70 with 10-bit bytes. One of
> the programmers
> told me that finding all the 8-bit assumptions in Unix applications was
> very painful.
>
I had been under the impression that there was a NetBSD port to the PDP-10,
but apparently it has only been proposed.
Niklas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-21 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-19 21:49 [TUHS] Re: [COFF] SOSP 1973 [was Multics<->Unix Re: Re: History of cal(1)? Noel Chiappa via TUHS
2025-09-19 21:59 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him) via TUHS
2025-09-21 1:12 ` John Levine via TUHS
2025-09-21 5:25 ` Niklas Karlsson via TUHS [this message]
2025-09-22 12:51 ` Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS
2025-09-22 15:19 ` Phillip Harbison via TUHS
2025-09-22 15:24 ` Phillip Harbison via TUHS
2025-09-22 15:41 ` Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS
2025-09-22 16:45 ` Phillip Harbison via TUHS
2025-09-24 0:33 ` Dave Horsfall via TUHS
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