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version 0 running on a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer. This primordial version on the original hardware is all the more remarkable because unlike its younger siblings very few PDP-7s have survived.
The Living Computers museum in Seattle has got a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer running version 0 of Unix just in time for the operating system's 50th birthday. According to Living Computers, the feat is ...
What made programming the PDP-11 different was that the minicomputer's design was elegant ... The UNIX operating system started life on a PDP-7 but was perfected on a PDP-11.
After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again.… The recovered code runs on a PDP ...
The PDP-1 first saw the light of day in 1960. Designed by DEC founder Ken Olsen and Harlan Andersen, it was the world's first minicomputer — which simply meant that it was smaller than the ...