17 Oct
2011
17 Oct
'11
4:01 p.m.
The ongoing thread about the origins of C and UNIX have made me
wonder about something I was told years ago:
"UNIX was written as a host platform for C *development* and was not
originally envisioned as the production platform for applications
developed on it."
In other words, the intent was that developers would write code on
UNIX, then port it to an "application-oriented" OS for production.
Is there any truth to that?
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