From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <155375-18252>; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:50:05 -0500 Received: from mcfeeley.indusriver.com ([209.6.112.7]:2738 "EHLO mcfeeley.indusriver.com" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <156544-18252>; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:17:27 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19981119181422.00cc93a0@pop3.indusriver.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:14:22 -0500 To: root@chaos.analogic.com, grep@oriole.sbay.org From: Brad Kemp Subject: Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) Cc: "Manuel J. Galan" , Linux kernel In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu 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. > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > --- -- -- Brad Kemp Indus River Networks, Inc. BradKemp@indusriver.com 31 Nagog Park 978-266-8122 Acton, MA 01720 fax 978-266-8111 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/