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Assembling the history of Unix (lwn.net)
9 points by k4rtik 3283 days ago
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Interesting that the version of Unix for the PDP-7 is 4k words long (about 9kB on a modern machine!), but the base model PDP-7 only shipped with 4k words of memory.

Also amazing that they got a whole Unix like system crammed into just 9kB. /bin/cat on my machine is 47,904 bytes long.