Ritchie making unix.c (was Re: How do you tell a wizard?)
Randal Schwartz
merlyn at iwarp.intel.com
Sat Oct 28 04:03:51 AEST 1989
In article <20408 at mimsy.umd.edu>, kilroy at mimsy (Nancy's Fiance) writes:
| > Gee. Did Dennis Ritchie simply do a :
| >
| > % cat > vmunix.c
|
| Actually it was:
|
| % cat > vmunix.s
No no. He did something like:
# cat >unix.s
It was some Bezerkley-oids that did the vmunix thing. Does it
really take a wizard to remember this?
(Durn. I can't remember what the V6 shell prompt was!)
Just another person playing a UNIX-wizard on the radio,
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