2009/8/22 Malcolm Johnston <[email protected]>:
> Ken Thompson, so the story goes, when asked in the late '70s or early '80s
> what he would do differently if he had to re-invent UNIX replied: ``I'd spell
> creat() with an ``-e''.

An "e" which went missing because of memory constraints...

Gives a hint of what kind of limitations they were working back then...

--Amos
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