4 Oct
1998
4 Oct
'98
8:22 p.m.
Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
I believe the first microcomputer to run Unix was the
DEC PDP11/03 and
11/23 at At&T's Bell Labs (see the papers on mini-unix).
Sam replied:
Microprocessor-based computer? Read the question
again.
Well, if you count a multiple-chip MOS VLSI CPU implementation as a
microprocessor-based computer, the 11/03 and 11/23 both qualify.
And if you don't count multi-chip implementations as microprocessors, then
the F-14 computer did not use a microprocessor.
You can't have it both ways.