Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:53:41 -0800 (PST)


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.

George Bonser

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