not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 1 day agoSomeone emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a replyfiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up1378arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1375arrow-down1imageSomeone emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a replyfiles.mastodon.socialnot_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square24linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·1 day agoNow the question is, did he put the x as a variable i.e. they couldn’t agree how to write it so he used x as a stand-in, or was he using x phonetically. Probably the latter, and yet…
minus-squareF/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 day agoDang, people should email him for 15 years to find out!
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·1 day agoLet’s leave it unsettled so future nerd historians, 100 years from now, can hate us for not asking and write books speculating about it.
minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 day agoOr post the question on a forum, then post “response deleted” and then post a third one to say “Thanks! That was super-interesting!”
Now the question is, did he put the x as a variable i.e. they couldn’t agree how to write it so he used x as a stand-in, or was he using x phonetically.
Probably the latter, and yet…
Dang, people should email him for 15 years to find out!
Let’s leave it unsettled so future nerd historians, 100 years from now, can hate us for not asking and write books speculating about it.
Or post the question on a forum, then post “response deleted” and then post a third one to say “Thanks! That was super-interesting!”