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Ward Christensen did some amazing things in the 1970 & 80s. There was once a shortest useful program contest, his entry was 2 bytes long[1] When he lost the s
by mikewarot 4y ago
Ward Christensen did some amazing things in the 1970 & 80s.
There was once a shortest useful program contest, his entry was 2 bytes long[1]
When he lost the source to a program he wrote, he created ReSource, a disassembler[2] that got forked a few times over and eventually gave us the NSA's GHIDRA
He was stuck at home because of a snow storm, and with Randy Suess, created one of the first BBS systems, and open sourced it.[3]
[1] https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/underground/BBSes/CBBS/1992/920402.ch https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/underground/BBSes/CBBS/199...
[2] https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-January/074143.html https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-January/...
[3] http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/byte%20nov%201978%20computerized%20BBS%20-%20ward%20christensen.pdf http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/byte%20nov%201978%20compu...