Ritchie making unix.c (was Re: How do you tell a wizard?)

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <20408 at mimsy.umd.edu>, kilroy at 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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