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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: f4grx@f4grx.net, andrew@humeweb.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Software written in B
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:41:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202306081441.358EfxaA028814@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB675D9F-B739-4542-A981-6E594327EA38@humeweb.com>

Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com> wrote:

> i was in 1127 in 1981 (for an internship) and then from 1983 onwards.
> the only B code i saw or knew of was the driver code that ran in the
> Linotron typesetter. it ran on an 8in floppy and my recollection is
> that the thing that mattered most was its very small run-time support.
> i’m pretty sure it was Ken’s code but i never knew any other details.
>

See https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/ for info about the Linotron
and Ken's code. Great reading, both the original memo and the story
behind reconstructing it.

Arnold

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-08 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-07 10:14 [TUHS] " Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-07 10:38 ` [TUHS] " Lars Brinkhoff
2023-06-07 15:05 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-07 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2023-06-07 16:21   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-06-07 17:26 ` Bakul Shah
2023-06-07 18:16 ` Phil Budne
2023-06-07 23:49 ` Andrew Hume
2023-06-08  2:10   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-08  3:31     ` Phil Budne
2023-06-08 15:05       ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-14 11:51         ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-14 20:03           ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-14 21:53             ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-14 22:05               ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-15  8:00             ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-15  8:21               ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-15  8:33                 ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-17  8:19             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-19  9:52               ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-19 10:18                 ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-19 10:48                   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-06-19 10:55                     ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-06-19 11:07                       ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-19 18:44                         ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-23 10:59               ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-23 13:32                 ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-23 14:01                   ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-23 14:14                     ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-23 14:39                       ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-23 14:10                 ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-23 14:49                   ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-23 15:31                     ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-23 15:36                       ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-06-23 15:53                         ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-08 14:41   ` arnold [this message]
2023-06-09  8:56 ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-06-09  9:57   ` Lars Brinkhoff

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