> It was smaller than a mainframe but larger than a microcomputer (also know as the personal computer). Microcomputers didn't exist until R2E released the Micr

> It was smaller than a mainframe but larger than a microcomputer (also know as the personal computer). Microcomputers didn't exist until R2E released the Micral N years later, and François Gernelle came up with this word. The Personal Computer was created by IBM in 1981, eight years after the birth of the microcomputer. You're not entirely wrong though, UNIX (think X as cross platform) was technically born with the C language on the PDP-11. The early "Unics" was written in assembly for the 18 bits PDPs ISA (more precisely a PDP-7, but the ISA was shared with the 1, 4, 7, 9 and 15). Then they came up with a new high level language to port it to the 16 bits PDP-11 ISA, which eventually became C.