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Re: [LUG] unix is 40 years old this year

 

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 07:28 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Paul Sutton wrote:
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> > http://www.unix.org/
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> I claim boring old guy!!!
> 
I second that! No...hang on that's not what I meant...

> I first used a Unix system when I was 19... That was 28 years ago, so I 
> didn't quite get into it in it's first decade. It was Unix v6 and was 
> cosidered old then... Running on a PDP11/40
>
I was at Uni a little earlier, 32 years ago, but we had a departmental
PDP11 (can't remember the exact model) used for teaching, there was also
a PDP8 although that used just for printing. The main central system was
Multics, but at that time we were on punched cards for our first 2
years. Only the third years and staff were allowed to use a VDU! :-)



John.

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