From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Bell Labs CSTRs
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2023 14:03:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiWrmz9RSwTgjLp_-jGfJsUgerA0OC6UQqrN7aR2qWwAMg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> once you've got M3 and M4, you've got a naming convention; I'd
> think it a safe bet that there was an M5 that was an internal
> experiment, and that M6 was simply the next in line
M6 came first, created by Andy Hall as a portability tool for Altran.
I always assumed the name echoed Ken Knowlton's L6 (BelL Labs low
level list language, with a superscript 6). I seem to recall that M6
was endowed with a very labored acronym.
Doug
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