Corrections to trivia

From: Megan <mbg_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Oct 4 18:46:59 1998

>< I believe the first microcomputer to run Unix was the DEC PDP11/03 and
>< 11/23 at At&T's Bell Labs (see the papers on mini-unix).
>
>I believe that is wrong. Unix was running on PDP-11s long before the
>LSI-11 or the 11/23 by many years. I think the 34, and 44s were teh
>popular hosts.

In fact, when I was a student at WPI in the mid-70's, we had a version
of Unix running on an 11/10 in the CS department (off RK05s)...

                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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