Does not look very cheap to me. Please note that $1 of 1973 is approximately $7 of 2024, so prices of usable configurations quickly reach the $100k to $200k territory, with a few grand of monthly upkeep.
Enterprise gear today can pretty quickly and easily add up to seven digits per rack. At a previous job, I personally handled a specialized network processing card that retailed for over a quarter million dollars.
The PDP-11 seems like a bargain for what was fairly close to cutting edge technology at the time.
I remember a 10-foot-long book at my college for Michigan Terminal System (MTS) because we didn't have UNIX running on the mainframe... i can't remember what UNIX ran on now, it was 1984-1988 at RPI. Anybody remember what UNIX ran on? It wasn't the VAX on the Vorhees building altar.
> the number of UNIX installations has grown to 16, with more expected.
What a time.
A time when computers were very expensive.
But Unix could run on a cheap PDP-11, within the budget of many departments.
Take a look at the PDP-11 price list from 1973: https://iamvirtual.ca/collection/systems/minis/PDP11-10/PDP1...
Does not look very cheap to me. Please note that $1 of 1973 is approximately $7 of 2024, so prices of usable configurations quickly reach the $100k to $200k territory, with a few grand of monthly upkeep.
Enterprise gear today can pretty quickly and easily add up to seven digits per rack. At a previous job, I personally handled a specialized network processing card that retailed for over a quarter million dollars.
The PDP-11 seems like a bargain for what was fairly close to cutting edge technology at the time.
I love how the "Index" (starting on page 18 of the PDF) doesn't send the reader to page numbers
It's 30 pages of intro and then -allthemanpages-.
I remember a 10-foot-long book at my college for Michigan Terminal System (MTS) because we didn't have UNIX running on the mainframe... i can't remember what UNIX ran on now, it was 1984-1988 at RPI. Anybody remember what UNIX ran on? It wasn't the VAX on the Vorhees building altar.
Third edition in 1973
Around the time that UNIX was being rewritten in C.
Would this OS have any chance of getting certified as a genuine Unix today?
No not even close
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