Gotta love this gem: "Perhaps the most important achievement of UNIX is to demonstrate that a powerful operating system for interactive use need not be expensive either in equipment or in human effort: UNIX can run on hardware costing as little as $40,000..."
> We will not attempt any interpretation of these figures nor any comparison with other systems, but merely note that we are generally satisfied with the overall performance of the system.<p>Will write that in one of my upcoming research papers and see how it turns out.
See also this earlier document (1971) posted on HN a few months ago:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660727" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660727</a>
Mmh look at that max uptime: two weeks -a whole 98% - A crash every other day ! Fortunately things evolved to winME stability since then (I know no multiuser)