History of Computing exam question

From: Allison <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Fri Nov 30 12:36:21 2001

Well for one the PDP-6 was a 36 bit machine that predated the PDP10.
The PDP-7 was an 18bitter, and unix was devoped on it because they had
one and not many other good reasons.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: One Without Reason <vance_at_ikickass.org>
To: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: History of Computing exam question


>
>I'm curious, Tony? Why the PDP-6 and not the PDP-7? Sure, the PDP-6 was
>used in AI development, but UNIX was written on a PDP-7.
>
>Peace... Sridhar
>
>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
>
>> Here's my list. It's a bit disorganised, and doubtless some of the
>> machines shouldn't really be there, but anyway. I am going to assume that
>> this wonderful technology that can grab any machine from the past can
>> also recreate a machine from the blueprints, even if it was never
>> actually made. That way I can have the first machine on my list :
>> <SNIP!>
>
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