Difference between revisions of "PDP-7 UNIX"
From Computer History Wiki
(Stub.) |
m (Jnc moved page PDP-7 Unix to PDP-7 UNIX: 'UNIX' was still in caps at this point) |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | Unix, a name coined later by Brian Kernighan, was written by Ken Thompson in 1969 to experiment with file | + | '''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. |
| + | |||
| + | ==External links== | ||
| + | |||
| + | * [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/ PDP-7 Unix] - recovered source listings | ||
| + | ** [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/Readme Readme] - covers contents | ||
| + | ** [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 | ||
{{stub}} | {{stub}} | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Category: Non-DEC Operating Systems]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Unix OS's]] | ||
Revision as of 21:24, 24 May 2022
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 systems 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.
External links
- PDP-7 Unix - recovered source listings
- Readme - covers contents
- The UNIX Time-Sharing System - covers the PDP-7 and earliest PDP-11 UNIX systems
- PDP-7 Unix - source code on GitHub
