6 May
1998
6 May
'98
2:35 p.m.
At 02:12 PM 5/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
<To my knowledge no flavor of unix runs on anything
less than a 32-bit
<processor. There's a unix-workalike for the C-64/128, but that's not
Your knowledge is limited. Unix was started and lived for years on
PDP-11s (a 16 bit machine) in the form of V5, V6, V7 and 2.9BSD and
2.11BSD. I may add it was on other machines like the Interdatas.
I have heard tell (from a very reliable source) of a version of Unix
written for the Radio Shack Model 100 (8085, 32K max). (And no, it's not
available, and yes, he's tried to get the company that did it to release it.)
I thought someone had said that CP/M was based on Unix? Or was that one
of the PDP opsys?
I find the idea of not less than 32bits, 200mhz cpus
and large memory
being a must to be patently retrorevisionist to the history of what was
done before those things were available.
Yep.
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