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A comment on The PDP-7 Where Unix Began.

Re:The PDP-7 Where Unix Began by peter_d_sherman on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:59PM (#21219610)
Amazing that the Unix of that day ran on an 8KB (not MB, not GB), 8KB machine with just 1MB (not GB, not TB), much-slower than today's SSD's, disk.

Compare that to Linux, its most popular descendant Unix of today...

Today's Linux requires a tad more memory and disk than that... just a tad... <g>

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Re:The PDP-7 Where Unix Began by ncmncm on Friday October 11, 2019 @02:38PM (#21227128)
Note that wasn't the Unix we think of when we talk about Unix. It was written in assembly code. C didn't properly exist yet.
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