From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: iking@killthewabbit.org (iking@killthewabbit.org) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:43:51 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped In-Reply-To: <201406181106.s5IB6scu031264@stowe.cs.dartmouth.edu> References: <201406181106.s5IB6scu031264@stowe.cs.dartmouth.edu> Message-ID: 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 Sent from my android device. -----Original Message----- From: Doug McIlroy 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 _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: