Corrections to trivia

From: CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sun Oct 4 18:56:13 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)...

But neither the 11/10 nor the /34 nor the /44 were, by any stretch
of the imagination, "microcomputers". Definitely minis.

Tim.
Received on Sun Oct 04 1998 - 18:56:13 BST