[Simh] Bliss versus C

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Tue Jan 30 18:05:13 EST 2018


On 2018-01-30 16:15, Clem Cole wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se 
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
> 
>       if they had been able to get a pdp-10 then Unix would not have
>     happened.
> 
> 
> ​That was Ken describing the Tenex development in the introduction to 
> his Turning award: /"I suspect Daniel Bobrow would be here instead of me 
> if he could not afford a PDP-10 and had to "settle" for a PDP-11."/
> 
> https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf 
> <https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf>

Ah. Right. That was what my memory was trying to remember.

   Johnny

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