[TUHS] [COFF] SOSP 1973 [was Multics<->Unix Re: Re: History of cal(1)?

[Niklas Karlsson via TUHS]

Den sön 21 sep. 2025 kl 03:13 skrev John Levine via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>:

> That made portability a lot easier.  The only attempt I know to put Unix
> on a machine
> that didn't have 8-bit bytes was the BBN C70 with 10-bit bytes.  One of
> the programmers
> told me that finding all the 8-bit assumptions in Unix applications was
> very painful.
>

I had been under the impression that there was a NetBSD port to the PDP-10,
but apparently it has only been proposed.

Niklas