You're both wrong, so there :-P
On Thursday, November 19, 1998 1:54 AM, George Bonser
[SMTP:grep@shorelink.com] wrote:
> 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.
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