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The second Unix patent #unix #history

🕤︎ - 2023-05-14

On The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Warner Losh shared a handwritten note by John Lions:

Douglass McIllroy follows up describing typo as one of the most creative Unix programs to come out of Bell Labs.

🕤︎ - 2023-05-14 - 0 comments

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