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UNIX Advertising From Way-back-when

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-the-day dept.

Doug Muth writes: "I found this advertisement over on Dennis Ritchie's Web site. It's an advertisement for a UNIX system back from 1981 when VAX-11 and PDP-11 systems were still being used. I wonder if Ritchie ever thought UNIX would get this popular?"

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  1. Congratulations, Slashdotters! by Orville · · Score: 5
    Bell Labs has been the home to an astonishing number of inventions, notably the UNIX operating system we so admire.

    The computer research division is home to such UNIX "rock stars" such as Ritchie, Thompson, Kernhigan.

    The sheer amount of talent and respect generated by Bell Labs is staggering.

    Now, all you punks have gone and 'slashdotted' thier web server! I hope you're happy, you... you bastards!

  2. Pictures of the PDP 11 by Money__ · · Score: 5
    This page has some wonderfull pictures of the "Digital PDP-11/20".

    Specs:" My PDP-11/20 was, like many machines, sold to me via the University of Wisconsin surplus program. This particular machine happened to be originally located in the Electrical Engineering Department real-time control lab that was sponsered by Professor Richard Marleau. Inside the panel, just above the CPU, is an RC11 disk drive. The RC11 is a 65K word (128 K byte) fixed head disk drive. After all these years (the system was first purchased around 1970) it still works!"

    Also this PDP-11/45 sports such wonderfull specs as:"The PDP-11/45 is of approximately the same vintage as the PDP-11/20, but is a much more sophisticated machine. For one thing, it was a micro-coded CPU. It had robust memory management, not seen in microcomputers from Intel until the 80386. It could also support two separate buses: one primarily intended for memory, and the second generally used for peripherals. This is not unlike today's "local bus" PC's. I cut my teeth on Unix on a PDP-11/45 system at the University of Wisconsin in 1976 along with my friends Paul and Hannes (among others)."

    This PDP-11/05 graphics system. " The GT40 was a graphic system, often used as a graphic terminal for DEC's PDP-10 and PDP-20 mainframe systems. The CPU was a PDP-11/05, but used the green color scheme of DEC's graphic systems rather than the magenta color scheme normally found on PDP-11's. The GT-40's main claim to fame is probably the famous Lunar Lander game, written by Jack Burness, as a consultant to Digital at the time."
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