From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix on PDP8?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:55:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a276bdfa-e81e-98af-a37d-c94dcf747e5a@gmail.com> (raw)
All,
Was Unix ever ported to a PDP8, or any other 12 bit environment, for
that matter? If not, why not? My understanding, such as it is, is that
Unix was created on the PDP7 - btw, thank you very much, Ken Thompson,
you definitely changed my world :), which is an 18bit machine, and that
it soon found its first real home on the 16 bit PDP11 series of machines
(an 11/20), and from there, ever upward or at least ever onward. I'm
curious about it for historical reasons, of course, but also because
I've been messing around in the PDP8 emulation world and enjoying the
excursion into simplified ISA and memory architectures.
-will
next reply other threads:[~2017-11-28 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-28 19:55 Will Senn [this message]
2017-11-28 20:24 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-28 23:26 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-29 6:56 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-29 14:05 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-30 0:53 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-11-30 8:34 ` emanuel stiebler
2017-11-29 14:31 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-29 22:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-29 22:28 ` Warren Toomey
2017-11-29 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-30 1:17 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-11-30 2:37 ` Dave Horsfall
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