[COLUG] first Unix with demand-paged virtual memory

[Thomas W. Cranston]

Rick Troth wrote:
> Amdah'ls UTS presumably always had demand-paged virtual memory
> and it started life circa 1982.
>
> I remember when working at a university
> getting into a "my Unix is better than your Unix" argument
> with a Berzerkeley afficionado.  (I don't like to stay too firmly
> in either camp, but in this particular discussion I was on the
> AT&T side.)  He swore that AT&T lacked virtual memory.
> But the only AT&T Unix I had known (two or three by that time)
> had always had virtual memory.  For my part, I was surprised
> that Berkeley Unix had virtual memory as far back as he claimed.
>
> -- R;
>
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, jep200404 wrote:
>
>   
>> Is the claim that the AT&T PC 7300 (aka UNIX-PC aka 3B1) had the first
>> Unix with demand-paged virtual memory? It seems hard to believe.
>>
>> In http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005754, I see the following:
>>
>>    Let's not forget the first Unix with demand-paged virtual memory:
>>    the AT&T PC 7300 (or UNIXPC). It had 1MB RAM, 4MB virtual memory,
>>    10 MHz 68010, SysVR3, loadable drivers, and email, among other things.
>>    It even had primitive windowing.
>>
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Interesting article. Any chance of getting one of these UNIX distros, 
and running them on a Tandy 1000 TX?