From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: wkt@minnie.tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:14:51 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [pups] bringing up the fist C compiler
In-Reply-To: <dcb7f8efb847f0ed61ba6071070b13f1@plan9.bell-labs.com> from Dennis
 Ritchie at "Sep 6, 2002 01:35:26 am"
Message-ID: <200209060814.g868Ep109493@minnie.tuhs.org>

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