[Rare systems]

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sun May 17 21:02:34 1998

At 02:44 PM 17-05-98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:
>On Sun, 17 May 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
>> Bzzt. Unix was created in 1974 at Bell Labs on a PDP-7.
>
>Proof by assertion *and* buzzer is my favorite kind of proof. At least
>the guy that wrote the UNIX FAQ disagrees with you, but I'm sure your
>buzzer is bigger than his :-)
>
> http://www.ee.byu.edu/unix-faq/subsection3_8_2.html

Well I don't care how nicely formatted the page is, it's wrong. Unix was
definitely originally written in assembler for the PDP-7. I'm sure I've got
the reference at home.

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