[TUHS] PWB contributions

Doug McIlroy doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
Mon Nov 9 11:39:12 AEST 2015


>> I thought PWB (makers of "make") came from Harvard?

> PWB ...  came straight out of Bell. Not sure about all the
> applications (well, SCCS came from Bell).

PWB did not create make; Stu Feldman did it in research.
PWB did make SCCS. I believe it also originated cico,
find and eval. Probably more, too, but I can't reliably
separate PWB's other contributions from USG's.

Doug



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