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Assembling the history of Unix

9 pointsby k4rtikalmost 8 years ago

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jandresealmost 8 years ago
Interesting that the version of Unix for the PDP-7 is 4k words long (about 9kB on a modern machine!), but the base model PDP-7 only shipped with 4k words of memory.<p>Also amazing that they got a whole Unix like system crammed into just 9kB. &#x2F;bin&#x2F;cat on my machine is 47,904 bytes long.