[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Mar 5 16:23:20 AEST 2025


    > From: Larry McVoy

    > Not once did I think about packing, the structs somehow just worked on
    > the machines I was working on. Maybe the TCP/IP guys knew about spacing
    > in the structs.

Not really! Of the first 6 TCP/IP implementations:

   https://gunkies.org/wiki/TCP_and_IP_bake_offs

only 1 was in C - and it was a relatively late one. The earliest ones were
mostly in assembler (PDP-10 and PDP-11).

	Noel


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