Surely, it has to go to the UK as stated by the "BRITISH CROWN COPYRIGHT" - the
1963 Colossus
seehttps://therecord.media/80th-anniversary-colossus-digital-computer-uk-wwii-nazi-codebreaking
On 01.02.2024 22:35, Henry Bent via cctalk wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 13:20, Liam Proven via cctalk<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 18:35, Henry Bent via cctalk
>> <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Surely by this definition UNIX would take the crown? The "core of the
>> OS"
>>> dates from 1969 and modern derivatives are everywhere.
>> Good point, but the OS I was referring to is RISC OS, *the* original
>> ARM OS and it has only ever run on ARM and nothing else.
>>
>> Nobody is making PDP-7s any more, are they? :-)
>>
>> I think the first C-based Unix was 4th edition. Are there any new PDP-11s?
>>
>> If that makes my point any clearer?
>>
> Yes, that does clarify things, thank you.
>
> Looking as a naive researcher, Wikipedia doesn't have any information on
> the ARM processor before 1981 or RiscOS before 1987. Do you have a source
> for your date of the late '70s?
>
> -Henry