Marty Fouts writes:
 > Actually, you have the sequence of events slightly out of order.  AT&T,
 > specifically Bell Labs, was one of the participants in the program that
 > would develop Multics. AT&T opted out of the program, for various reasons,
 > but it continued apace.  The PDP-8 of fame was one that, according to
 > Thompson, happened to be available and unused.

The original system on which UNIX development started was not a PDP-8,
but a PDP-7.  The earliest UNIX was also written in assembler.  Thompson
and Ritchie developed C as a higher-level implementation language during
the process of porting UNIX from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11.
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