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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] on the topic of viruses
Date: Mon,  1 Oct 2001 14:10:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9p9rfv$bht$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011001120906.C949B19A0D@mail.cse.psu.edu>

Hi,

> I'll let someone who knows answer, such as Dennis.
> Boyd is wrong.

I thought that Thompson did it quite early on and by the time he
announced it with that paper the compiler had long since been replaced
by Johnson's PCC.

PCC was at its late formalative stage around March 1976 according to
Dennis.

    http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/firstport.html


Ralph.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-01 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-01 12:09 rob pike
2001-10-01 14:10 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-02  2:35 dmr
2001-10-01 13:55 forsyth
2001-10-02  0:58 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-01 13:54 rog
2001-10-01 13:48 rob pike
2001-10-01 13:09 presotto
2001-09-30 13:11 rob pike
2001-10-01  9:46 ` Digby Tarvin
2001-10-01  9:51   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-28  1:06 dmr
2001-09-28  9:58 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-28 14:23 ` Bobby Dimmette
2001-09-28 18:44   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-28 20:35     ` Bobby Dimmette
2001-10-01  9:55       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-01 10:40         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-01  9:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-09-27  4:33 dmr
2001-09-27 11:05 ` Anthony Mandic
2001-09-30 12:51 ` Digby Tarvin
2001-09-30 13:10   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-01  9:56   ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-09-27  1:21 andrey mirtchovski
2001-09-27  1:22 ` Boyd Roberts

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