[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Chris Byrne <chris at chrisbyrne.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> > [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire

> The first part I knew, the second part. Wow. The machine that
> probably did more to spread UNIX than any other, and it didn't
> get GCC for 10 years. Any particular reason why not, or was it
> just that there were already good C compilers avaialble for it. 

I would have thought that title would have belonged to the VAX-11/780,
but I have nothing more than my emotions/recollections. I thought the
PDP-11 days were really a group of friends sharing tapes, but when the
VAX-11/780 hit the scene, that was when things got "real" (like BSD
distributions, etc.)...

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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