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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by spolsky on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @11:42AM (#299498)
Yep. Unix was written on a PDP-7 http://www.linfo.org/pdp-7.html -- probably with 8,000 or 16,000 words of memory (18 bit words), probably running on the order of several thousand instructions per second
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