Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Date: 22 Jul 2025 20:55:48 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <105fgk4$2ka5f$1@dont-email.me> <20250721093237.0000674f@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net pBw7rx72JXh5AMl4X5EjGw7GwesNBCDMbomXbqnlgzuBcWCQ94 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pyd7Z0IhgpTecW4fxgZHMxZpSPg= sha256:BXFyTYOJzU3JkB/55EXsjtbXjDI9NRqAJeKHIQ6jZss= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69849 alt.folklore.computers:231368 On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:44:22 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Bob Eager writes: >>On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:32:37 -0700, John Ames wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:14:12 -0000 (UTC) >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>> > For sure it's a really limited Unix port since the target HW is the >>>> > original PC or PC/XT. >>>> >>>> Which is still way more powerful than an early-1970s-vintage PDP-11, >>>> which is what Bell Labs Unix was originally developed on, and for. >>> >>> Hmm, that's an interesting question, actually - the Bell Labs -11 was >>> an 11/45, which was much faster than the original -11s, >> >>Our was acceptable on an 11/40. That was vanilla Sixth Edition. > > We ran the sixth edition on an 11/34. Also had the unix v32 version > on the 11/780 by 1980. I think our 780 got V32 in summer 1979. But it wasn't long before we moved to 4.0BSD. -- UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org