[Simh] pdp11 and unix

[Bill Cunningham]

1967 was the first hand held.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Johnny Billquist 
  To: Bill Cunningham ; simh at trailing-edge.com 
  Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 8:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix


  Well, 1976 is a far cry from the 1950s...

    Johnny


  Bill Cunningham <billcun at suddenlink.net> skrev: (27 februari 2016 23:59:06 CET)
  >Calculators I'm thinking of are "HandHeld" and the IC by Jack Kilby.
  >
  >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby
  >
  >1976. The "year the slide rule died" They say.
  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
  >  From: Johnny Billquist 
  >  To: simh at trailing-edge.com 
  >  Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 5:05 PM
  >  Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix
  >
  >
  >  On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning wrote:
  >  >
  >>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham
  ><billcun at suddenlink.net> wrote:
  >  >>
  >>> 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?
  >  >
  >> 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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