From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: origin of null-terminated strings
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:26:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiUWY88BbJBiXoS4GKauv49qZTHvef5Rz3_qBn7v4ccX7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> To what extent were the Unix folks at Bell Labs already familiar with DEC systems before the PDP-7?
Some awareness, but no hands-on experience,
> was any thought given to trying to get a 360 system?
Very serious thought. However, virtual memory was a non-negotiable
desideratum, to which Gene Amdahl was implacably opposed because
demand paging would devastate hardware performance. Soon after GE got
the nod, IBM revealed Gerrit Blaauw's skunk-works project, the 360/67,
but by then the die had been cast. Michigan bought one and built a
nice time-sharing system that was running well before Multics.
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2022-12-16 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-16 22:26 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2022-12-17 2:03 ` James Frew
2022-12-17 3:42 ` steve jenkin
2022-12-17 17:11 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 18:15 ` Tom Lyon
2022-12-17 18:43 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 18:46 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 19:26 ` Tom Perrine
2022-12-19 4:26 ` Adam Thornton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-16 23:11 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-16 3:02 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-16 3:14 ` [TUHS] " Ken Thompson
2022-12-16 9:13 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-12-16 13:42 ` Dan Halbert
2022-12-16 16:10 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-16 16:22 ` Tom Lyon
2022-12-16 16:29 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-12-16 20:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-16 21:02 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-16 21:13 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-16 21:49 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 0:26 ` Phil Budne
2022-12-16 21:18 ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-16 21:20 ` Dan Halbert
2022-12-16 3:17 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-16 17:24 ` John P. Linderman
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