PDP-11 chronology (was: Re: notable computer stories...)

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From: camp... Larry Campbell
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 03:48

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In article <13...@scorn.sco.COM> dav...@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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Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
camp...@redsox.bsw.com                 120 Fulton Street
wjh12!redsox!campbell                   Boston, MA 02109

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From: camp...@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
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Subject: PDP-11 chronology (was: Re: notable computer stories...)
Keywords: PDP, Unix, Emacs, C
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