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0 pointsjacquesm5y ago0 comments

> " (Thompson had made a brief attempt to produce a system coded in an early version of C—before structures—in 1972, but gave up the effort.)"

Yes, but that is the key bit right, the fact that C didn't have structures yet is what caused the effort to be aborted, and once those were added they succeeded.

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pjmlp5y ago

Except my point was

> Original C was created after UNIX already existed, used for UNIX's first rewrite and until UNIX source code left Bell Labs, it only worked on PDP-11 computers.

Regardless of failed porting effort, the original UNIX, implemented in Assembly and running on the PDP-7, was already being used by a small community.

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