UNIX Arcana [was Re: Perl (or Unix vs. MS, actually) ]

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:12:36 EDT
"Bayard R. Coolidge" said:

>bscott at ntisys.com asked:
>
>>>> was Unix ever developed on any of those?
>(meaning the 12-bit PDP-8/PDP-12 architectures)
>
>AFAIK, no. I believe that the original development was
>on some PDP-11's (11/45's?) that Bell Labs had at the time.

I thought they were PDP-7s, no?  If so, then they wouldn't need to 
back-port to the 8, would they?  Though for some reason, I thought 
that the 7 and 11 were closer in architecture and that the 8 was 
totally different than anything else.

>Those, of course, are 16-bit machines. But, I don't ever
>hearing about any "back-porting" to the PDP-8's. At the
>time, it would have been a real PITA, because the I/O
>architectures were totally different.

Different from the 7 *and* 11, or just different from the 11?

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