30 Nov
2015
30 Nov
'15
10:02 a.m.
Warren Toomey scripsit:
It's certainly an interesting read.
Some things that strike me particularly:
- the presence of only one execute bit (a file is either executable or
it isn't!)
- the "@" prompt of the shell
- the blocked paper tape driver
- the fact that ^\ causes an arbitrary non-shell process to core dump
if several are running and DEL (aka ^C) does not exist yet
- the fact that switches don't yet exist (and indeed when passing files
to the B interpreter one must precede them with a hyphen)
I also note the marginal "NO!" next to the statement that the second
argument to 'creat' is the file mode. I wonder what that was about.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
"Make a case, man; you're full of naked assertions, just like Nietzsche."
"Oh, i suffer from that, too. But you know, naked assertions or GTFO."
--heard on #scheme, sorta