Comment on Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball

• ylph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I worked at Bell Labs in the 90s, on wireless stuff, but we were still using the “in house” cfront compiler at the time, and would e-mail the compiler group, which included Bjarne Stroustrup, with issues sometimes. I learned C++ from his book before I joined Bell Labs, so that was a bit of a holy shit moment for sure for me then.

  Kernighan, Ritchie and Thompson all still worked at Bell Labs as well at the time, but the company was huge then, and they were all in a different location from my team, so I never had any opportunities to meet them.

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  • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Have you read the Unix: A History and a Memoir? I only started it, but the first chapter or two is just Kernighan talking about Bell Labs.

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