Corrections to trivia

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Oct 5 03:22:13 1998

Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
> 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).

Sam replied:
> Microprocessor-based computer? Read the question again.

Well, if you count a multiple-chip MOS VLSI CPU implementation as a
microprocessor-based computer, the 11/03 and 11/23 both qualify.

And if you don't count multi-chip implementations as microprocessors, then
the F-14 computer did not use a microprocessor.

You can't have it both ways.
Received on Mon Oct 05 1998 - 03:22:13 BST