PDP-7 UNIX - Revision history

Jnc: /* External links */ +The PDP-7 Where Unix Began

2025-07-22T10:32:19Z

‎External links: +The PDP-7 Where Unix Began

Jnc: /* External links */ Update Bell Labs URLs (blast Nokia); also Princeton

2025-06-12T16:01:59Z

‎External links: Update Bell Labs URLs (blast Nokia); also Princeton

Jnc: Expand to more of a quick overview

2023-03-08T01:31:57Z

Expand to more of a quick overview

Jnc: Jnc moved page PDP-7 Unix to PDP-7 UNIX: 'UNIX' was still in caps at this point

2022-05-24T19:24:46Z

Jnc moved page PDP-7 Unix to PDP-7 UNIX: 'UNIX' was still in caps at this point

Jnc: /* External links */ +TUHS links

2022-02-13T14:41:22Z

‎External links: +TUHS links

Jnc: +cats, expand a tiny bit

2021-08-24T08:14:56Z

+cats, expand a tiny bit

Larsbrinkhoff: Link to sources on GitHub.

2021-08-24T05:54:42Z

Link to sources on GitHub.

Larsbrinkhoff: Stub.

2021-08-24T05:50:31Z

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Unix, a name coined later by Brian Kernighan, was written by Ken Thompson in 1969 to experiment with file systems and support his [[Space Travel]] game. Thompson was able to find a little-used [[PDP-7]] with a [[Graphic II]] display system.

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 * [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/oral-history/ An Oral History of Unix] - Lengthy interviews with Thompson, Ritchie, McIlroy, etc <!-- https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory offline original -->
 ** [https://doc.cat-v.org/unix/oral-history/finalhis.htm Unix: An Oral History] - much detail on the PDP-7 version, especially about the management environment in which it was allowed to flourish <!-- http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm ditto -->
 [[Category: Non-DEC Operating Systems]]
 [[Category: Unix OS's]]

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 ** [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/UnixEditionZero.txt The UNIX Time-Sharing System] - covers the PDP-7 and earliest PDP-11 UNIX systems
 * [https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix PDP-7 Unix] - source code on GitHub
-* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ Dennis M. Ritchie] - see section "Unix papers and writings, approximately chronological"
+* [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/ Dennis M. Ritchie] - see section "Unix papers and writings, approximately chronological"
-** [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System]
+** Dennis M. Ritchie, [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.html ''The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System'']
-* [https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory An Oral History of Unix] - Lengthy interviews with Thompson, Ritchie, McIlroy, etc<!--
+* [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/oral-history/ An Oral History of Unix] - Lengthy interviews with Thompson, Ritchie, McIlroy, etc <!-- https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory offline original -->
- http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/oral-history/ alt copy -->
+** [https://doc.cat-v.org/unix/oral-history/finalhis.htm Unix: An Oral History] - much detail on the PDP-7 version, especially about the management environment in which it was allowed to flourish <!-- http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm ditto -->
 [[Category: Non-DEC Operating Systems]]
 [[Category: Unix OS's]]

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-'''Unix''' (very briefly '''Unics''', as a pun on '[[Multics]]'), a name coined later by Brian Kernighan, was written by Ken Thompson in 1969 to experiment with [[file system]]s and support his [[Space Travel]] game. After Bell Labs' withdrawal from the Multics project, Thompson was able to find a little-used [[PDP-7]] with a [[Graphic II]] display system to work on.
+'''UNIX''' (very briefly '''Unics''', as a pun on '[[Multics]]') on the [[PDP-7]] was the first version of [[UNIX]]. (The name was coined later by Brian Kernighan.) After [[Bell Laboratories]]' withdrawal from the Multics project, [[Ken Thompson]] was able to find a little-used PDP-7 with a [[Graphic II]] display system to work on, and it was on this machine that UNIX (albeit in a very primitive version) was born.
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 ** [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/UnixEditionZero.txt The UNIX Time-Sharing System] - covers the PDP-7 and earliest PDP-11 UNIX systems
 * [https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix PDP-7 Unix] - source code on GitHub
+* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ Dennis M. Ritchie] - see section "Unix papers and writings, approximately chronological"
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+** [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System]
 [[Category: Non-DEC Operating Systems]]
 [[Category: Unix OS's]]

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 ==External links==
-* [https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix PDP-7 Unix source code on GitHub]
+* [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/ PDP-7 Unix] - recovered source listings
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-Unix, a name coined later by Brian Kernighan, was written by Ken Thompson in 1969 to experiment with file systems and support his [[Space Travel]] game.  Thompson was able to find a little-used [[PDP-7]] with a [[Graphic II]] display system.
+'''Unix''' (very briefly '''Unics''', as a pun on '[[Multics]]'), a name coined later by Brian Kernighan, was written by Ken Thompson in 1969 to experiment with [[file system]]s and support his [[Space Travel]] game. After Bell Labs' withdrawal from the Multics project, Thompson was able to find a little-used [[PDP-7]] with a [[Graphic II]] display system to work on.
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		+	* [https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix PDP-7 Unix source code on GitHub]

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