[Simh] pdp11 and unix

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham <billcun at suddenlink.net> wrote:
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>> Well that's certainly before ICs I think that was in the 1950s and it was some early calculators that killed slide rules. What kind of "processor" were they using? I'm not so sure there was real HLL before Adm. Hopper. And no binary by Babbge. Do you have any links or anything from the '40s?
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> HLL?  I was talking about assembler...  Anyway, I don't believe COBOL was the first HLL, though it certainly was fairly early.

The first HLL ought to have been FORTRAN. Lisp might have been the 
second, but I'm not entirely sure.

I'm not sure what kind of calculators Bill are thinking of. But until 
the early 70s, calculators were usually mechanical, or electromechanical 
things with cogwheels, and definitely worked in decimal.
No processors in there...

	Johnny

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