Ethan Blanton on Nostr: This is your periodic reminder that the Model 33 #Teletype – the device on which ...
This is your periodic reminder that the Model 33 #Teletype – the device on which #Unix and the C programming language were largely developed – HAS NO CURLY BRACKETS.
The pictured source code is printed on a Model 35 Teletype, which is a different mechanism but uses the same ASCII '63 character set. Note that the Unix TTY driver (V6, in this case) knows this, and prints { and } as \( and \), respectively.
Somehow I never learned this in DECADES of learning about early Unix.
The pictured source code is printed on a Model 35 Teletype, which is a different mechanism but uses the same ASCII '63 character set. Note that the Unix TTY driver (V6, in this case) knows this, and prints { and } as \( and \), respectively.
Somehow I never learned this in DECADES of learning about early Unix.