History of Computing exam question - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Nov 2001

Well for one the PDP-6 was a 36 bit machine that predated the PDP10.
The PDP-7 was an 18bitter, and unix was devoped on it because they had
one and not many other good reasons.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: One Without Reason &lt;vance(a)ikickass.org&gt;
To: Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: History of Computing exam question

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I'm curious, Tony?  Why the PDP-6 and not the PDP-7?  Sure, the PDP-6 was
used in AI development, but UNIX was written on a PDP-7.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Tony Duell wrote:

  Here's my list. It's a bit disorganised,
and doubtless some of the
 machines shouldn't really be there, but anyway. I am going to assume that
 this wonderful technology that can grab any machine from the past can
 also recreate a machine from the blueprints, even if it was never
 actually made. That way I can have the first machine on my list :
 <SNIP!> 