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by D-Coder 732 days ago
Speaking of heritage... 8+3 goes back at least to DECSystem-10 on PDP-10s.
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MadnessASAP 732 days ago
Everything goes back to the PDP-10 we are all using the incestuous off-spring of DEC.

Whether that is good or bad is left as an exercise to the reader.

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NikkiA 732 days ago
A lot of it came from RSX11 features that got rolled into the PDP-10 OSes.
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vincent-manis 732 days ago
6+3 on DEC TOPS-10.
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