On Mon, 18 May 1998, Huw Davies wrote:
At 02:44 PM 17-05-98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Bzzt. Unix was created in 1974 at Bell Labs on a
PDP-7.
Proof by assertion *and* buzzer is my favorite kind of proof. At least
the guy that wrote the UNIX FAQ disagrees with you, but I'm sure your
buzzer is bigger than his :-)
http://www.ee.byu.edu/unix-faq/subsection3_8_2.html
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.
Ok, now we have two opposing consensus' (consensi?) going. Was it a PDP-7
in 1974 as I originally stated or a (what was that?) in 1968?
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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