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[Laura Creighton]

> Greg Ewing fed this fish to the penguins on Sunday 01 December 2002 
> 08:25 pm:
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> > 
> > People keep saying that, but I don't think it's true.
> > Didn't the first C implementation pre-date the PDP-11
> > one?
> >
>         There were PDP models which predate the PDP-11... (I can't recall if 
> it was a PDP-8 or PDP-7...)
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Yes there were PDPs which predate the pdp-11 but they did not run C. 

See: The Development of the C Language
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html

DMR has other nice papers here:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html