Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron
From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: PWB/UNIX
Keywords: PWB
Message-ID: 
Date: 7 Jul 88 18:08:00 GMT
References: <16382@brl-adm.ARPA> <1194@dvlmarv.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 13

It is not true that PWB UNIX required an 11/70 and floating point.  It didn't
even require split-I/D so you could run it on 11/34's and such provided they
had memory management.

What I believe you are referring to as 6.5 is the phototypesetter C compiler.
When you bought troff, you got a fixed up, pre-version 7 compiler that had
things like the equals-op operators the right way around.  There was also a
kernel diff listing circulating around referred to as "fifty fixes."

There was actually a PWB II release which had a V7 kernel as a base, if I
recall.

-Ron