As far as I know, the Unix group has to promise to build a document processing system to get the pdp-11 they needed. Building Unix was a specific non-goal of B

As far as I know, the Unix group has to promise to build a document processing system to get the pdp-11 they needed. Building Unix was a specific non-goal of Bell Labs as a result of their experience with Multics. It was the perseverance of the Unix group that made them get the resources they needed.