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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #14 from previous page: October 13, 2011, 09:31:45 PM »
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Not sure... Probably would have dragged MacOS classic into the 21st century, and I would have little to do with them...


As a large amount of MacOS classic will have been written in C as well with out Dennis Ritchie MacOS classic may also have failed to come to pass :-)
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2011, 09:32:32 PM »
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Not sure... Probably would have dragged MacOS classic into the 21st century, and I would have little to do with them...

If my memory serves, TripOS (the basis for AmigaDOS) was a Unix inspired system if not a direct clone... So no UNIX, no Amiga :-/


TRIPOS was originally developed for the PDP-11, but that's about the only thing it has in common with UNIX.
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #16 on: October 13, 2011, 09:49:10 PM »
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As a large amount of MacOS classic will have been written in C as well with out Dennis Ritchie MacOS classic may also have failed to come to pass :-)
Actually, it was originally written in assembler and Pascal, I don't think they went C until System 7 or 7.5.
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2011, 09:58:55 PM »
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Actually, it was originally written in assembler and Pascal, I don't think they went C until System 7 or 7.5.

lol, but did they use emacs or vi to write the code as both were written in C if I remember correctly :)
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2011, 10:04:31 PM »
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Actually, it was originally written in assembler and Pascal, I don't think they went C until System 7 or 7.5.


Oh I have sweet memories of writing everything in Turbo Pascal then re-writing it again in TASM syntax assembly to teach myself the latter. :)
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2011, 11:23:32 PM »
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lol, but did they use emacs or vi to write the code as both were written in C if I remember correctly :)
According to Andy Hertzfeld's account they used Lisas for development work, and IIRC the Lisa software was also all Pascal or assembler, so it's possible C didn't enter the equation (on the OS-dev side of things) until much later.
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2011, 12:04:10 AM »
The Kernighan/Ritchie is still what I consider my personal holy book of coding :)  Without it, I'd have never figured my way around in C...
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2011, 09:57:56 AM »
I just checked and I have this very book also Revision2 this is great because I'm going to start the road to programming again early November

very cool :-)
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2011, 10:02:41 AM »
I just checked and I have this very book also Rev2 this is great because I'm going to start the road to programming again early November

When I first began this journey I was working out of "beginning with C" by Ron House which is supposed to be C++ compatiable

I have all or most of the abacus programming books but I'm not sure I want to learn C using Amiga C for beginners etc...

anyway, sorry to stray, this is a day to remember!
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #23 on: October 14, 2011, 07:44:49 PM »
/* RIP Dennis :( */
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Re: Dennis Ritchie passes away :'(
« Reply #24 on: October 15, 2011, 07:04:22 PM »
RIP

There's a part of me that wishes he made it to 2016.

RIP dmr.
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