Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 12:04 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote:

> > 
> The story is then that Olson was so pissed off that he put the PDP-11 
> within 9 months in the market and when you opened the 2 boxes you didn't 
> find much difference.
> I assume other computer veterans on this list can give better details on 
> this.
> Any way on this site > http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11
> the PDP11-20 is said to be set into the market in 1970 and ran several 
> OS. Unix (DEC name: Ultrix) was one of them.

Ultrix did not appear until after the AT&T breakup in the early 80s.
Ultrix was a derivative of the BSD Unix work and ran on the VAX
hardware. I think you could get a PDP-11 version, but I am not sure
about that.  In the 70s Unix was put out under various research
"Editions".  The last one from AT&T before the commercial System 3 was
Edition 7.  I still have a paper manual for Edition 7 lying around the
house somewhere.  Remarkably, the basic OS API and filesystem
permissions and structure is very similar to any modern Unix or Linux
system.  Any competent sysadmin or programmer familiar with Linux would
feel right at home on Edition 7.

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