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This isn't specifically PDP-8-related, but the story of Bell Labs going to extraordinary lengths to hire Ken Thompson is a hoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
by caned 4y ago
This isn't specifically PDP-8-related, but the story of Bell Labs going to extraordinary lengths to hire Ken Thompson is a hoot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o
...not to mention Ken's story of Doug McIlroy writing a compiler for TCG on a sheet of paper, then using it to compile itself - by hand - thus "feeding his sheet of paper his sheet of paper."
- __turbobrew__ 4y agoI love that story about TCG. When in university discovering computer science I remember thinking “how was the first compiler made?” and I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of compilers out there have a lineage originating from McIlroy’s hand compiled TCG sheet.