Martin BishopUntil 1977, #Unix primarily ran on the #DEC PDP-11. In 1977, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) released the VAX-11/780—a significantly more powerful, 32-bit successor to the PDP-11. The VAX came with its own operating system, VMS. #PDP
Almost immediately, Bell Labs began porting #Unix to the new architecture, and the resulting port became known as UNIX/32V (Unix 32-bit Virtual). This made Unix available on a powerful, modern 32-bit machine, which paved the way for the influential #BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) versions of Unix developed at the University of California, Berkeley. The last image shows the #DEC terminal of the 11/780 booting 4.3 BSD UNIX. Via @unix_byte
