Re: Paying developers to get features faster

From: Jean-David Beyer (j_at_d.b)
Date: 01/26/04

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    Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
    > In <4012AF8D.9060500@d.b>, on 01/24/2004
    > at 12:46 PM, Jean-David Beyer <j@d.b> said:
    >
    >
    >>I never asked Dennis Ritchie about this, but the first C compiler, I
    >>am almost certain, was written for the DEC PDP-11 series
    >
    >
    > Surely PDP-7 or PDP-9. Although those also had autoincrement and
    > autodecrement.
    >

    I think development of the UNIX OS started on a PDP-7; I am pretty sure
    it was not the PDP-9. But that was all in assembler. Dennis made B
    (dialect of BCPL, IIRC), but it was an interpreter. C was going to be a
    compiled version of B, but one thing lead to another. I do not believe
    he wrote a C compiler for anything other than the PDP-11. I know the
    first version of the kernel written in C was for the PDP-11. 

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