Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 18:54 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > What is it you don't follow??
> >
> > The first incarnation of Unix was written for the PDP-11 from DEC. I
> > mentioned that I acquired that machine after I had had experience with
> > another machine of DEC, the PDP8 which was not 16-bit but 12-bit (as the
> > PDP-9 and PDP-10 were). The PDP-11 was the first machine programmed in
> > hexadecimal (instead of octal which were the other machines). Unix was the
> > first general 16-bit OS and incorporated several principles with respect to
> > security that still forms the base of ala UNIX lookalikes.
> 
> I didn't follow the purpose of the nix history. Nothing more.

A quick correction - the first Unix was written for the PDP-7 in 1969 -
not the PDP-11 which did not even exist in 1969.  It was called Unics
which was a pun on Multics.  In 1971 the 1st Edition Unix was running on
a PDP-11/20. This system was the immediate successor to Unics.

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