7 May
1998
7 May
'98
5:21 p.m.
Ward Griffiths wrote:
Somebody may have ported something similar to OS-9 the
Mod 100, but
no way this side of Hell would it run anything like a real Unix --
even Radio Shack's first Xenix had a 70k kernel.
To quote Dennis Ritchie: "On the PDP-7 UNIX system everything was written in
assembly language... we only had 4k words of memory for user programs on the
PDP-7..."
Clearly, a Model 100 would have been a much more powerful system for hosting
the first version of UNIX. Even the PDP-11 that eventually replaced the
PDP-7 could address at most 64k. I guess that must have been a way on the
OTHER side of Hell.
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Claudio Puviani
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