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Article #1255Re: Apple? (subject change)
From: Tim Olson
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 23:17
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 23:17
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Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes:
> Absolutely none of the "features" you've mentioned existed when the first
> version of Unix was written -- well, there were plotters and some basic
> oscilliscope based graphics at the time. It was at least another 10 years,
> and probably more like 20, before SMP hardware was invented.
UNIX was initially developed from ~'69 - 73. C.mmp/Hydra was started
in '71 and was in use at CMU in '75. Pluribus was started in '72.
Looks like SMP was certainly invented much earlier than you suspected.
-- Tim Olson
Apple Computer, Inc. / Somerset
tim@apple.com
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