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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Ritchie making unix.c (was Re: How do you tell a wizard?)
Keywords: pronunciation, editors, reporters, photographers, newspaper, `Woof!'
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Date: 27 Oct 89 18:03:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: kilroy@mimsy.umd.edu (Nancy's Fiance)

In article <20408@mimsy.umd.edu>, kilroy@mimsy (Nancy's Fiance) writes:
| >  Gee.  Did Dennis Ritchie simply do a :
| >
| >  % cat > vmunix.c
| 
| Actually it was:
| 
| % cat > vmunix.s

No no.  He did something like:

# cat >unix.s

It was some Bezerkley-oids that did the vmunix thing.  Does it
really take a wizard to remember this?

(Durn.  I can't remember what the V6 shell prompt was!)

Just another person playing a UNIX-wizard on the radio,
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