I understood from Mike Anshel that he was rather proud of this, though of
course I never asked Dennis myself.
I wonder if Harvard would posthumously enter it in the books if someone
dropped off a bound copy now?
I imagine somehow Dennis wouldn't appreciate that.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 8:23 PM Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> wrote:

> The Computer History Museum has an interesting blog post about
> Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation:
>
>
> https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
>
> Interesting fact is that Dennis never received his PhD because he failed
> to provide a bound copy of his dissertation to the Harvard library.
>
>         Kirk McKusick
>