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Nit: Gates/Allen developed their basic on an 8080 emulator running on a PDP-10 (1966), so it wasn't running Unix. The PDP-11 (1970) was the first computer to ru
by tpmx 5y ago
Nit: Gates/Allen developed their basic on an 8080 emulator running on a PDP-10 (1966), so it wasn't running Unix. The PDP-11 (1970) was the first computer to run Unix. I agree that it was a pretty smart move to emulate the 8080 micro on a (very expensive) mainframe computer.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC + https://www.inwap.com/pdp10/xkleten.txt https://www.inwap.com/pdp10/xkleten.txt
- WalterBright 5y agoI know it was a -10, I made the mistake of writing that I'd have used Unix and then conflating that with Gates/Allen using a -10.