17 May
1998
17 May
'98
2:44 p.m.
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Huw Davies wrote:
Well I don't care how nicely formatted the page is, it's wrong. Unix was
definitely originally written in assembler for the PDP-7. I'm sure I've got
the reference at home.
To be fair, the author does say
<<
Unix history goes back to 1969 and the famous "little-used PDP-7 in a
corner" on which Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie (the R in K&R) and others
started work on what was to become Unix. The name "Unix" was intended as a
pun on Multics (and was written "Unics" at first - UNiplexed Information
and Computing System).
>
And then goes on to list signifcant versions, including something called
V1 that was written on an PDP-11 in '71. So, perhaps V0 was written in
'69 on a PDP-7? (DMR was a zero-based kinda guy, after all.)
-- Doug