From: Brad Kemp <kemp@indusriver.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com, grep@oriole.sbay.org
Cc: "Manuel J. Galan" <manolow@step.es>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:14:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981119181422.00cc93a0@pop3.indusriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981119083036.1012A-100000@chaos.analogic.com >
The first unix was on a
PDP-7 cross assembled and originally developed to
support game of `Space Travel`
>From Dennis Ritchie's home page
http://cm.bell-labs.com/~dmr/
The evolution of a Unix timeshare system
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
At 08:38 AM 11/19/98 -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>>
>> > Unix was built on a Digital PDP-11/34, using tools available
>> > in the RSX-11 Digital Operation system. Most of the 'hardware stuff'
>> > was done in DEC MACRO Assembly under RSX-11.
>>
>> scuse me but the first Unix I saw was running on a PDP-8. It might have
>> originated on a PDP-6. Unix was written in C from the start according to
>> all the documentation I have read. Also, I saw Unix running on PDP systems
>
>> before the /34 was ever produced. This includes the 11/24 and 11/70.
>> Probably the best Unix installation I ever saw was a dual /44 system in
>> 1984. It was the first HA system I ever worked with. It had the beginnings
>> of what we now call RAID.
>>
>
>See "The UNIX Time-Sharing System", Vol 57, No.6 Part 2, pages 1905-
>1929, by Dennis Ritchie and K Thompson. The concepts were worked out
>on earlier machines.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Dick Johnson
> ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
>Penguin : Linux version 2.1.128 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
>Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
>
>
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1998-11-19 23:14 ` Brad Kemp [this message]
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