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From: Marty Fouts <marty@dotcast.com>
To: "'Steve VanDevender'" <stevev@efn.org>
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Subject: RE: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:19:41 -0800
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Er, um, yes.  I stand corrected.


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve VanDevender [mailto:stevev@efn.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:44 AM
To: Marty Fouts
Cc: 'root@chaos.analogic.com'; Michael Rothwell; Linux kernel
Subject: RE: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel


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.
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