How Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson wrote Unix

CTSS
Multics on GE-645
Bell Labs leaves Multics
GECOS on GE-635 as bootstrap host
PDP-7 target machine
Teletype Model 33 ASR used for input/output
paper tape bootstrap
early Unix on PDP-7
Unix becomes self-hosting
PDP-11 Unix
Unix rewritten in C
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