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From: lhsux@Sequoia.uucp (Lorne Schachter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again)
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.112423.8970@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 11:24:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.050847.23968@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us> david@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us (David Schachter) writes:
>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.
>
>-- 
>                                               David Schachter

I think Ken and Dennis got started on an 8 (or maybe a 7), the released
system ran on an 11.

						Lorne Schachter
						(no relation, I think)