[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> --- 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.)...

3BSD was the first BSD for VAX.

Peace...  Sridhar