28 Oct
2010
28 Oct
'10
10:12 a.m.
On Oct 27, 2010, at 11:31 AM, William Donzelli wrote:
agreed.
No, I didn't say that at all. I was just saying that the it would be interesting to
explore how the pdp-11 and VAX architectures influenced the design of unix,
and how unix, in turn, influenced software development as a whole. I thin
the two are interrelated.
As I recall, in 1983, running unix on a VAX was the "hot setup" for software
developers. Followed soon by running unix on a Sun...
-brad
Brad Parker
Heeltoe Consulting
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In this case I
think popularity is important. The '11 instruction set was
somewhat of a
departure from other machines in that it was very "programmer friendly".
I think a lot of people would not agree with that. The PDP-10 people,
for example. You could
insert a small paragraph here about the role of unix and how unix
and
the pdp-11 and vax interacted.
Are you saying that the PDP-11 and VAX were the first machines where
the hardware and software were both considered and designed together?
Once again, I think a lot of people would not agree with that.