On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:21, Carroll Grigsby wrote:

> According to Dennis Ritchie (and he should know), it began on a PDP7 using 
> assembly language. (See http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html). A 
> very interesting read, particularly for those who have ever labored in the 
> fields of R&D and had troubles generating interest and funding for the latest 
> Really Great Idea Guaranteed to Revolutionize Civilization.
> -- cmg

That was a mind boggling read. Awesome. So then 1969 was a good year
after all, eh?

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