> 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
Huuuhh??? ITYM -7. PDP-8 port of UNIX would be something...
> originated on a PDP-6. Unix was written in C from the start according to
Really? -6 was 36bit beast and porting from it to 18bit -7 would
be majestic pain in ass. Not to mention the fact that -8 was 12bit.
> all the documentation I have read. Also, I saw Unix running on PDP systems
You probably read pretty strange documentation. The first version
more or less rewritten into C was v4.
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