Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:14:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:14:33 -0500 Received: from clavin.efn.org ([206.163.176.10]:34250 "EHLO clavin.efn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:14:22 -0500 From: Steve VanDevender MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14865.38388.928796.220539@tzadkiel.efn.org> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:43:48 -0800 To: Marty Fouts Cc: "'root@chaos.analogic.com'" , Michael Rothwell , Linux kernel Subject: RE: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <52C41B218DE28244B071A1B96DD474F628016D@DC-SRVR1.dotcast.com> In-Reply-To: <52C41B218DE28244B071A1B96DD474F628016D@DC-SRVR1.dotcast.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.82 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marty Fouts writes: > Actually, you have the sequence of events slightly out of order. AT&T, > specifically Bell Labs, was one of the participants in the program that > would develop Multics. AT&T opted out of the program, for various reasons, > but it continued apace. The PDP-8 of fame was one that, according to > Thompson, happened to be available and unused. The original system on which UNIX development started was not a PDP-8, but a PDP-7. The earliest UNIX was also written in assembler. Thompson and Ritchie developed C as a higher-level implementation language during the process of porting UNIX from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/