![]() Two tapes are present here the first is labeled "last1120c", the second "prestruct-c". But at the same time it does capture two moments in a period of creativeness and may have some historical interest. In looking over this material, I have mixed emotions so much of this stuff is immature and not well-done, and there is an element of embarrassment about displaying it. It was also the period in which Unix was rewritten in C. " As described in the C History paper, 1972-73 were the truly formative years in the development of the C language: this is when the transition from typeless B to weakly typed C took place, mediated by the (Neanderthal?) NB language, of which no source seems to survive. ![]() Unfortunately existing tapes lack interesting things like earliest Unix OS source, but some indicative fossils have been prepared for exhibition. ![]() Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-creator of UNIX operating system, had been curating some old DECtapes, and he offered some of the artifacts. ![]()
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