[TUHS] The origins of portability in C

[Dave Horsfall via TUHS]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2025, Rob Pike via TUHS wrote:

> It was done for the port to the Interdata. To answer question 3, I often 
> heard (and early on, believed) that things like *p++ were invented for 
> the addressing modes on the PDP-11, but was told by Ken and Dennis that 
> they were not original.

I believe the same thing was said about the SOB instruction too.

-- Dave