From: wkt@minnie.tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [pups] bringing up the fist C compiler
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:14:51 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209060814.g868Ep109493@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcb7f8efb847f0ed61ba6071070b13f1@plan9.bell-labs.com> from Dennis Ritchie at "Sep 6, 2002 01:35:26 am"
In article by Dennis Ritchie:
> The chist paper on my home page is pretty complete (if telegraphic)
> about bootstrapping B on the PDP-7 and later C (via B) on the -11.
The chist paper doesn't mention NB, which was the missing link between
B and C. I seem to recall a story where there was an NB interpreter
and also a compiler, and Ken kept adding functionality to one which
made it slower, and this had a knock-on effect. Sorry, that's all I
can dredge out of my wetware bit store. Was this in `A Quarter Century
of UNIX' by Peter Salus? Are there any other paper/web references to NB?
Warren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-06 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 5:35 Dennis Ritchie
2002-09-06 8:14 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2002-09-06 8:56 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-06 10:28 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-06 10:52 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-06 11:06 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-06 8:28 ` Lars Brinkhoff
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-05 22:54 [pups] Bringing " Carl Lowenstein
2002-09-05 17:47 Al Kossow
2002-09-05 23:21 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 15:36 Ian King
2002-09-05 8:06 Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 8:16 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-05 9:38 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 9:41 ` Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 10:07 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 10:15 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-05 11:19 ` Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 12:05 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 16:11 ` Michael Davidson
2002-09-09 21:17 ` Peter Jeremy
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