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Maybe because UNIX folks had more fun doing their stuff instead of actually do it properly?

One decade older hardware was better than newly released PDP-11...

Thankfully we have encyclopedias.

Oh I bet fun also played a role. But I don't even know what exactly you are comparing against the PDP-11 here or and what point, because UNIX development happened on 11s for at least a decade. UNIX first ran on a PDP-11 in 1971 or so and a decade earlier there was only CTSS perhaps to compare it to, which had more memory than a PDP-11 at the time. Later timesharing systems like Multics and TOPS-10 also ran on bigger machines. And let's not forget it all began on a PDP-7, which was even smaller.

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