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The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself Dennis Ritchie.
https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc/tree/master/last1120c No matter what you use today—iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, *BSD, or anything else- we all owe something to C and Unix, and to dmr, one way or another. This compiler is a piece of history that changed computing for us all. Thank you, dmr.
#history #compsci #UNIX
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