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		kps on March 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) Unix was originally written for an 18-bit machine.

fanf2 on March 11, 2021 [–]

That was before C which is what we are talking about.

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