From: "ches@Cheswick.com" <ches@cheswick.com>
To: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:53:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A8E301D-D8F7-40DA-9042-ABCA887821EC@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180629075310.GA9477@minnie.tuhs.org>
Dennis, do you have any recommendations on good books to use the learn C?
I don’t know, I never had to learn C. -dmr
Message by ches. Tappos by iPad.
> On Jun 29, 2018, at 3:53 AM, Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> We do have ken on the list, so I won't be presumptious to ask for ken-related
> anecdotes, but would anybody like to share some dmr anecdotes?
>
> I never met Dennis in person, but he was generous with his time about my
> interest in Unix history; and also with sharing the material he still had.
>
> Dennis was very clever, though. He would bring out a new artifact and say:
> well, here's what I still have of X. Pity it will never execute again, sigh.
>
> I'm sure he knew that I would take that as a challenge. Mind you, it worked,
> which is why we now have the first Unix kernel in C, the 'nsys' kernel, and
> the first two C compilers, in executable format.
>
> Any other good anecdotes?
>
> Cheers, Warren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-29 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-29 7:53 Warren Toomey
2018-06-29 10:53 ` ches@Cheswick.com [this message]
2018-06-29 12:51 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30 0:50 ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-30 11:44 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-30 22:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-30 23:29 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 4:17 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-01 11:42 ` ron
2018-07-01 5:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-07-01 8:28 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 11:34 ` ron
2018-07-09 16:30 ` Random832
2018-07-09 17:13 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-10 5:54 ` arnold
2018-07-10 6:09 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-10 7:19 ` arnold
2018-07-11 0:20 ` Noel Hunt
2018-07-11 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11 1:37 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-11 1:37 ` ron minnich
2018-07-11 3:12 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11 3:34 ` [TUHS] getopt (was " Bakul Shah
2018-07-13 9:08 ` [TUHS] " ches@Cheswick.com
2018-07-13 14:10 ` ron
2018-07-10 14:10 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-03 17:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 23:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-30 0:06 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-30 14:20 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30 1:31 Larry McVoy
2018-06-30 1:45 ` Jon Forrest
2018-06-30 18:43 ` Steve Johnson
2018-07-01 16:35 Norman Wilson
2018-07-02 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-07-03 7:27 arnold
2018-07-18 9:42 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
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