[alt.folklore.computers] PDP-11 chronology

campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) (01/16/90)

In article <1361@scorn.sco.COM> davidv@sco.COM (David Vangerov) writes:
-1) way back when, when Doonesbury was just getting started, Trudeau
-   had a little series with Mark learning how to program a PDP 11/70
-   (at least i think it was the 11/70) for a summer job. he didn't
-   have such a good time with it. if anyone has the book "Still a Few 
-   Bugs in the System" they can confirm this for us all... i don't think 
-   the computer was running Unix, much too early for that.

Uh, UNIX first booted in 1969 and was ported to the PDP-11 around 1972.
The PDP 11/70 didn't hit the streets until 1975.
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