17 Jun
2014
17 Jun
'14
1:56 a.m.
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 21:38:40 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
Gregg Levine scripsit:
Sounds like it was crying out for somebody to write an operating
system for it :-)
Greg
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I know I've seen the Star system rig before.
But the Xerox Alto one is
new to me. Wasn't the PDP-7 the fellow where UNIX really got its start
on before they moved it to a PDP-11?
It was. The 18-bit systems were the red-headed stepchild of the DEC world.
The PDP-1, PDP-4, and PDP-7 systems had no DEC-supplied operating system,
and the PDP-9 only a minimal one, about like OS/8. Not until the terminal
18-bit system, the PDP-15, were PDP-11 class operating systems provided.
Consequently, the Bell Labs PDP-7 was essentially useless.