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drewg123
on April 17, 2024
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F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Lan...
It would be nice if they included the part about why they had the PDP-7 in the first place, and what inspired them to start hacking on it: Because Ken Thompson wanted a cool machine to play "Space Travel" on.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)
mandarax8
on April 17, 2024
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Its in the comic before it.
https://fosscomics.com/7.%20ITS%20and%20Hacker%20Culture/
drewg123
on April 18, 2024
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