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events:timeline [2016/03/22 20:57] – [1971] wktevents:timeline [2022/09/10 20:41] – old revision restored (2016/03/22 21:04) 37.187.94.3
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 **Dennis says:** "I think the Neumann connection was an invention of my own fevered brain. I wasn't sure who created the name and I assumed Peter because of his propensity for puns. He has since denied involvement and Brian has claimed it, so I think things are as certain as they can be at this point." [ [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Emails/dmr_wkt.html#200001102120.IAA29553@csadfa.cs.adfa.edu.au|private email from dmr]] dated 10 Jan 2000] **Dennis says:** "I think the Neumann connection was an invention of my own fevered brain. I wasn't sure who created the name and I assumed Peter because of his propensity for puns. He has since denied involvement and Brian has claimed it, so I think things are as certain as they can be at this point." [ [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Emails/dmr_wkt.html#200001102120.IAA29553@csadfa.cs.adfa.edu.au|private email from dmr]] dated 10 Jan 2000]
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 +** Mid-year:** The PDP-7 version supports two concurrent users, one on a teleprinter and the other on the Graphics-2 device. The filesystem has the "dd" directory, a "system" directory for binaries and per-user directories, but no concept of pathnames, "." or ".." [ [[https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix|extant source code]] ]. Utilities include as, bi (B interpreter), cat, check (filesystem checker), chmod, chown, chrm (remove files), cp, db (debugger), dsw (delete from switches), ed, ln, mv, sh, stat (ls-like output on one file).
  
 **Mid-year:** The PDP-11/20 is ordered, but it arrives with no disk drives as they were not ready yet [ [[:publications:quarter_century_of_unix|QCU]] pg 35], [ [[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html]] ] **Mid-year:** The PDP-11/20 is ordered, but it arrives with no disk drives as they were not ready yet [ [[:publications:quarter_century_of_unix|QCU]] pg 35], [ [[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html]] ]
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