17 Jun
2014
17 Jun
'14
1:38 a.m.
Gregg Levine scripsit:
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.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
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