My timeline I sent earlier illustrates the development dates. The faq listed is
definitely wrong. Take a look at Kernighan & Pike's book on the Unix OS for more
details.
Dan
Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au
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> > 1999
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> >
>
> Huw -- I agree with your assertion. I remember seeing this in
> Don Libes book -- Life With Unix... (Prentice-Hall?)
>
> Also in a number of references in the Edition 7 docs.
>
> Unix was written in assembler for a PDP-7 (I thought 1970 for the First
> Edition ).
>
> Bill
>
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