BCPL, early TCP/IP, etc - was Re: Programming for the Alto's Mesa

Toby Thain toby at telegraphics.com.au
Wed Jun 22 19:18:28 CDT 2016


On 2016-06-21 3:42 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
> Even if you never touch an Alto (and I hope that you someday can do so!),
> it's interesting to look at BCPL, an ancestor of C.  I learned to read it
> fairly well when I was maintaining LCM's first Alto.  -- Ian
>

BCPL was also the language of the very first implementations of TCP/IP.

ref 
https://www.quora.com/In-what-programming-language-was-TCP-IP-written/answer/Tony-Li-19

--Toby




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