From: iking@killthewabbit.org (iking@killthewabbit.org)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:43:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef723f8a-52b6-4810-be59-1837c75b1da3.maildroid@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201406181106.s5IB6scu031264@stowe.cs.dartmouth.edu>
Interesting - what's your source? It was also my understanding they used the -7 'because it was there' but that they had pitched for a PDP-10, which had TOPS-10. - Ian
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From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
Sent: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped
> It's always been a bit of a mystery to me why Thompson and Ritchie decided they needed to write a new executive - UNICS - rather than use DECsys.
It was the other way around. They had conceived a clean, simple, yet
powerful, operating system and needed a machine to build it on. A
cast-off PDP-7 happened to be at hand.
Doug
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2014-06-18 11:06 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-18 14:43 ` iking [this message]
2014-06-18 14:48 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 18:21 ` A. P. Garcia
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2014-06-20 13:05 Douglas Comer
2014-06-19 1:49 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-18 21:21 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-18 22:55 ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 17:48 Douglas Comer
2014-06-18 22:38 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 15:03 Norman Wilson
2014-06-18 14:00 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 16:58 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 15:55 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 15:14 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 16:50 ` scj
2014-06-18 18:43 ` John Cowan
2014-06-15 18:19 Norman Wilson
2014-06-16 16:13 ` iking
2014-06-16 22:01 ` Gregg Levine
2014-06-17 1:38 ` John Cowan
2014-06-17 1:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-06-17 3:13 ` iking
2014-06-17 12:14 ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 16:21 ` Ian King
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