[Simh] Bliss versus C

[dave porter]

Hmmm.. to be honest this sound nice but I suspect it is more like
legend/wishful thinking than something Dennis would have said.

I'm pretty sure I read this in something actually written
by Ritchie, though since I can't come up with the source,
it's possible I'm suffering from uncorrectable memory errors.

[Johnny Billquist]

I think he said something similar about if they had been able to get a pdp-10 then Unix would not have happened.

Johnny

Post by dave porter

Hmmm.. to be honest this sound nice but I suspect it is more like
legend/wishful thinking than something Dennis would have said.

I'm pretty sure I read this in something actually written
by Ritchie, though since I can't come up with the source,
it's possible I'm suffering from uncorrectable memory errors.
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[Clem Cole]

Post by Johnny Billquist
if they had been able to get a pdp-10 then Unix would not have happened.

​That was Ken describing the Tenex development in the introduction to his
Turning award: *"I suspect Daniel Bobrow would be here instead of me if he
could not afford a PDP-10 and had to "settle" for a PDP-11."*

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf


Clem
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[Johnny Billquist]

 if they had been able to get a pdp-10 then Unix would not have
happened.
​That was Ken describing the Tenex development in the introduction to
his Turning award: /"I suspect Daniel Bobrow would be here instead of me
if he could not afford a PDP-10 and had to "settle" for a PDP-11."/
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf
<https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf>

Ah. Right. That was what my memory was trying to remember.

Johnny