On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Bill Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote:
> When Ken Thompson coded UNIX it was in assembly. Correct... > The first versions anyway before B/NB/C I do not think that is 100% correct. B and early UNIX sort of come about at the same time. B (and its pseudo model - BCPL) has only one data type (a word) and that works because UNIX was originally implemented on a word addressed machine. NB/C comes out when the Ken starts moving to the 11 which was byte addressed, as opposed to word addresses of it's predecessors.
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