> 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.
>
See "The UNIX Time-Sharing System", Vol 57, No.6 Part 2, pages 1905-
1929, by Dennis Ritchie and K Thompson. The concepts were worked out
on earlier machines.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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