From: beebe@math.utah.edu (Nelson H. F. Beebe)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix and the PDP-10
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 11:16:59 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CMM.0.95.0.1433524619.beebe@psi.math.utah.edu> (raw)
This new paper may be of interest to list readers:
Dan Murphy
TENEX and TOPS-20
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 37(1) 75--82 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2015.15
In particular, the author notes on page 81:
>> ...
>> The fact that UNIX was implemented in a reasonably portable language
>> (at least as compared with 36-bit MACRO) also encouraged its spread to
>> new and less expensive machines. If I could have done just one thing
>> differently in the history of TENEX and TOPS-20, it would be to have
>> coded it in a higher-level language. With that, it's probable that the
>> system, or at least large parts of it, would have spread to other
>> architectures and ultimately survived the demise of the 36-bit
>> architecture.
>> ...
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