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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967.
Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter)

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OTD 1975, Digital announces the -11/70.
With up to 4 Megabytes(!) of memory.

Princeton's PDP-11/45 had 80K bytes of memory. Ran UNIX just fine.

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New, long, oral history of Ken Thompson, my and everyone's hero.

From the Computer History Museum: https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/

Click thru a while to get a text transcript.

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OTD 1978: Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" is published. My most precious artifact is Draft #1 of the same.

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Why did you use variables like ‘i’ or ‘j’ in for loop instead of verbose names like “counter”? 👨🏽‍💻

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@nixCraft FORTRAN did it first, but it comes straight from math notation for sums (big sigma) and products (big pi). Do people really not realize this?