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In article <20143 at amdcad.AMD.COM>, rpw3 at amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock) says:
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>| Doesn't ANYONE remember the Dual System 83? It was the first 68000
>| based UNIX (a V7 kernel with 2.8 BSD utilities, introduced in
>| November 1981), and it did indeed use the S-100 (IEEE-696) bus,
>| and 8-1/2 inch floppy drives.
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>Uh... Eric, let's compare dates. The Fortune System 32:16 was also introduced
>in November 1981, at COMDEX, so which was "first"? (The 32:16 was a 68000-based
>Unix, with a V7 + 4.1bsd kernel, with 4.1 + System-III utilities. Came with an
>800k 5-1/4" floppy and a 5 meg 5-1/4" wini. The MMU was a proprietary base+limit
>segmentation type [4 segments: text/data/extra/stack], since no Motorola chips
>were available... for several years!)
>
>Granted, we weren't S-100...   ;-}
>
>
>Rob Warnock
>Systems Architecture Consultant
>
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This is not bizarre. GET IT THE HELL OUT OF TALK.BIZARRE!!!
     
I, not being a great and mighty unix.wizard, can edit the news line.  Can you?
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