How Soon They Forget...

[Rob Warnock]

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| Doesn't ANYONE remember the Dual System 83? It was the first 68000
| based UNIX (a V7 kernel with 2.8 BSD utilities, introduced in
| November 1981), and it did indeed use the S-100 (IEEE-696) bus,
| and 8-1/2 inch floppy drives.
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Uh... Eric, let's compare dates. The Fortune System 32:16 was also introduced
in November 1981, at COMDEX, so which was "first"? (The 32:16 was a 68000-based
Unix, with a V7 + 4.1bsd kernel, with 4.1 + System-III utilities. Came with an
800k 5-1/4" floppy and a 5 meg 5-1/4" wini. The MMU was a proprietary base+limit
segmentation type [4 segments: text/data/extra/stack], since no Motorola chips
were available... for several years!)

Granted, we weren't S-100...   ;-}


Rob Warnock
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