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From: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: UNIX
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Date: 13 Nov 90 00:35:07 GMT
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Reply-To: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson)
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Looks like folks are now beginning to credit the development
of UNIX to Kernighan and Ritchie, but I thought the principal
investigators were *Thompson* and Ritchie.  Did something change?

   <9333@b11.ingr.com>, lhughes@b11.ingr.com (Lawrence Hughes)
   $ Welcome to the wonderful world of multi-megabyte executables
   $ that barely fit in 2 MB systems, barely crawl on 25 MHz CPUs
   $ and won't even run on any known diskette system. Compliments of
   $ brothers Kernigan and Ritchie.

   <PCG.90Nov10145452@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
   # Poor Kernighan and Ritchie must be turning in their graves -- oops
   # sorry, they are fortunately still with us :-). V7 Unix was designed to
   # run efficiently on a 64KB adress space machine.

   <1106@banyan.UUCP>, gil@banyan.UUCP (Gil Pilz@Eng@Banyan)
   % It's not _that_ hard to come up with a NEW system that is simple and
   % elegant when you're tucked away in some lab with no one watching you
   % (K&R deserve kudos for designing one that was also portable and widely
   % usefull).  It's quite another thing to be working on an existing
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