5 Dec
2011
5 Dec
'11
11:55 p.m.
From: Tom
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 5:23 PM
Interesting article about the 40th anniversary of
the progenitor of many modern operating systems.
It even mentions our very own Al Kossow,
"One holy grail that eluded us for a long time
was the first edition of Unix in any form,
electronic or otherwise. Then, in 2006, Al Kossow
_Pace_ Warren, this is *NOT* "the first edition of Unix in any form".
What Al found is the ____PDP-11____ version of Unix. The *FIRST* edition
was written in PDP-7 assembler cross-compiled on a GE 635, and as far as
DMR could tell was completely lost.
Sorry, but as curator for the only (known) running PDP-7 on the planet,
I'd be a lot more interested in that.
("1st Edition" Unix for the PDP-11 is cool, but I'm going to insist on
accuracy from the professionals, and Warren is very much a professional.)
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/