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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

  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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