7 Sep
2002
7 Sep
'02
3:49 a.m.
On Sunday, 1 September 2002 at 21:54:57 -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
Dave Horsfall:
AFAIK, Unix never ran on the 11/20 (no MM unit); did you mean a DEC-20?
I don't know if it was called an 11/20 at the time (I seem to recall
some model-number upheaval in the early days of the -11),
The 11/20 was definitely called like that in early 1970. IIRC it was
also the first PDP-11 model; it was certainly the first I heard of.
The quote below tends to reinforce this viewpoint.
but the first PDP-11 UNIX system was certainly one
without memory
management:
By the beginning of 1970, PDP-7 UNIX was a going concern ... In early
1970 we proposed acquisition of a PDP-11, which had just been introduced
by Digital
Greg
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