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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Unix for Atari 8-bit
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Date: 27 May 90 18:56:59 GMT
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In article <20321@nigel.udel.EDU> V2057A%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Juan Jose Noyles) writes:
>I'm in no position to say what will or won't happen, but I'd like to remind
>you folks that Unix v7, upon which Minix is based, was capable of running quite
>well on a 64K machine (PDP 11/34).  Perhaps someone can find out from DEC
>(Digital Equipment Corporation) and find out who wrote v7.11m, which I used in
>1983 (on a PDP 11/34), and ask try to persuade them to become involved with or
>at least look at Minix.

UNIX V7 for the PDP-11 was written by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of
AT&T Bell Labs.  I'll see both of them in London in July, where all three
of us are invited speakers at the UK UNIX USERS GROUP MEETING.
I'll ask them, but I suspect Dennis will giggle and Ken will frown.
I wouldn't hold my breath on this one.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)