When did the `dc' command first appear?

[Brian D Chase]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Warren Toomey wrote:

> There's a binary of dc from either 1st or 2nd Edition in the PUPS Archive:
> 
> 	-r---wxrw- 0/0            6846 Apr 14 06:50 1973 bin/dc

Hmmm... did the permissions on files have the same meaning back in 1973 as
they do now?  Group and "other" writeable system binaries?  Tsk tsk tsk.

Well I suppose just because someone has written the Unix operating system,
it doesn't necessarily mean that they're a very good Unix sysadmin.

-brian.
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