From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: origin of null-terminated strings
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:29:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202212161629.2BGGTKSU2417723@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W6DBkX_AZ7UskrJiAfZ7jrFFONW0NLimT_R7U4-kX7HKQ@mail.gmail.com>
Dan Cross writes:
>
> This raises something I've always been curious about. To what extent were
> the Unix folks at Bell Labs already familiar with DEC systems before the PDP-7?
Well, I recall that there was a PDP-8 in the keypunch room on the 5th floor of
building 2. I believe that it was hooked to a card reader and printer so that
one could get a listing of a deck of cards without having to use the computer
center. But that's probably not what you're asking about.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-16 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-16 3:02 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-16 3:14 ` [TUHS] " Ken Thompson
2022-12-16 9:13 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-12-16 13:42 ` Dan Halbert
2022-12-16 16:10 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-16 16:22 ` Tom Lyon
2022-12-16 16:29 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2022-12-16 20:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-16 21:02 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-16 21:13 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-16 21:49 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 0:26 ` Phil Budne
2022-12-16 21:18 ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-16 21:20 ` Dan Halbert
2022-12-16 3:17 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-16 17:24 ` John P. Linderman
[not found] ` <6009124d-750d-365e-a424-ec7bb25922b9@gmail.com>
2022-12-16 22:30 ` [TUHS] Terms for string, and similar character constructs (was: origin of null-terminated strings) Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-16 22:51 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-12-16 22:26 [TUHS] Re: origin of null-terminated strings Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-17 2:03 ` James Frew
2022-12-17 3:42 ` steve jenkin
2022-12-17 17:11 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 18:15 ` Tom Lyon
2022-12-17 18:43 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 18:46 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 19:26 ` Tom Perrine
2022-12-19 4:26 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-16 23:11 Noel Chiappa
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