Author: Josh Dersch

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    Miss Piggy – a PDP-11/70

    Miss Piggy: A Legendary PDP-11/70 at Microsoft Miss Piggy was one of Microsoft’s central computing workhorses in the early 1980s, particularly supporting the End User Applications group responsible for developing key software such as Multiplan, Microsoft Word, and later Excel. It also hosted development tools including the p-code compiler and cross assemblers targeting platforms like the TRS-80. The system ran Xenix, Microsoft’s UNIX variant, which was…