On Mon, 18 May 1998, Huw Davies 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.
Ok, now we have two opposing consensus' (consensi?) going. Was it a PDP-7
in 1974 as I originally stated or a (what was that?) in 1968?
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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