17 May
1998
17 May
'98
2:52 p.m.
My timeline I sent earlier illustrates the development dates. The faq listed is
definitely wrong. Take a look at Kernighan & Pike's book on the Unix OS for more
details.
Dan
Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
At 02:44 PM 17-05-98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:
Huw -- I agree with your assertion. I remember seeing this in
Don Libes book -- Life With Unix... (Prentice-Hall?)
Also in a number of references in the Edition 7 docs.
Unix was written in assembler for a PDP-7 (I thought 1970 for the First
Edition ).
Bill
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ On Sun, 17 May 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
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.
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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