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From: david@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us (David Schachter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again)
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.050847.23968@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: 17 Jun 91 05:08:47 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.143436.5574@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <25791@lanl.gov>
Organization: Greenwire Consulting
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In article <25791@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>[UNIX] became popular because, at a critical time in the 70's, it was _free_
>and _open_ and avalable on the _cheapest_ useful hardware: PDP-8/11 and VAXen.

I don't believe any form of UNIX ran on the pdp8 line of computers.

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                                               David Schachter
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