[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Mon Jul 8 08:00:46 AEST 2024
On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, Peter Yardley wrote:
> The DG Nova had a pretty nice architecture. 2 accumulators, 2 index
> registers, program counter, status register. No stack register tho.
> There was a micro processor version by Fairchild.
The story behind it is interesting too. The designer at DEC (Ed de
Castro) tried to promote it, Ken Olson didn't like it, so he left to form
Data General and created the DG Nova.
OK, not a Unix box...
-- Dave
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