[TUHS] Software written in B

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Andrew Hume <andrew at humeweb.com> wrote:

> i was in 1127 in 1981 (for an internship) and then from 1983 onwards.
> the only B code i saw or knew of was the driver code that ran in the
> Linotron typesetter. it ran on an 8in floppy and my recollection is
> that the thing that mattered most was its very small run-time support.
> i’m pretty sure it was Ken’s code but i never knew any other details.
>

See https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/ for info about the Linotron
and Ken's code. Great reading, both the original memo and the story
behind reconstructing it.

Arnold