[TUHS] Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C

[John R Levine via TUHS]

On Wed, 20 May 2026, Clem Cole wrote:
>> Other than that we all used the Model 33 because it was cheap and
>> reliable and we typed \( \) and dealt with it.
>>
> I disagree here. By November 1973 (Research Fourth Edition release date),
> many/most of us might have used an ~$1500 ASR-33 as the console, while,
> most often (though somewhat pricey - often $3K-$5 - think the DEC VT05),
> glass terminals had already been widely adopted. ...

Everyone's experience was different.  The Unix system I used in a lab at 
Princeton only had the ASR-33 TTY.  The one I ran at Yale had the TTY 
console and a bunch of unique homebrewed bitmap terminals that I wrote up 
in an article in Software Practice and Experience.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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