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> Unix was born to play games Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought this was only the reason for the predecessor of it on the PDP-7: Thompson wanted Sp
by chx 2y ago
> Unix was born to play games
Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought this was only the reason for the predecessor of it on the PDP-7: Thompson wanted Space Travel to run on the PDP-7 and the necessary boilerplate became a rudimentary OS. But porting this to the PDP-11 was not motivated by Space Travel -- or was it?