18 Jun
2014
18 Jun
'14
5:06 p.m.
It's always been a bit of a mystery to me why
Thompson and Ritchie decided they needed to write a new executive - UNICS - rather than
use DECsys.
It was the other way around. They had conceived a clean, simple, yet
powerful, operating system and needed a machine to build it on. A
cast-off PDP-7 happened to be at hand.
Doug