Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
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Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
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Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#2The wayback machine has snapshots of this, including one taken today, June 4. [1] I hope the current error is just something transient and will be resolved soon. I also hope someone has contacts for the website to alert them.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.bell...
Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#3The wayback machine has snapshots of this, including one taken today, June 4. [1] I hope the current error is just something transient and will be resolved soon. I also hope someone has contacts for the website to alert them. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.bell...
I did not receive any error.
Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#4The wayback machine has snapshots of this, including one taken today, June 4. [1] I hope the current error is just something transient and will be resolved soon. I also hope someone has contacts for the website to alert them. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.bell...
What error are you seeing? I'm seeing the same page in the archive as on the live site.
Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#5He mentions Plan 9. Reading that Wikipedia lead to the Inferno operating system. Which mentions a focus on portability and a file interface.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
That reminds me of web assembly and WASI.
So this is tangential but how is the component stuff in web assembly doing? It seemed like such a great idea to me but apparently, at least at one point, was somehow controversial or political.
Also, I wonder if it would be possible to port Inferno to web assembly.
Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#6He mentions Plan 9. Reading that Wikipedia lead to the Inferno operating system. Which mentions a focus on portability and a file interface. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) That reminds me of web assembly and WASI. So this is tangential but how is the component stuff in web assembly doing? It seemed like such a great idea to me but apparently, at least at one point, was somehow controversia…
Basically WebAssembly is anything but new.
You can also check Burroughs, Xerox PARC Workstations, USCD Pascal, Modula-2 MeDos, IBM AS/400, TenDRA, Taos, Oberon, among many others, that have had the idea of bytecode as portable OS binaries.
Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#7Specially to note is the history of C, where he acknowledges the issues with C and the creation of lint for static analysis (in 1979), or his proposal for fat pointers, that wasn't accepted by WG14.
Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#8He worked for bell labs since ‘67 before his death?
Wow, absolutely unheard of now. I’ll have to read a few of his papers now.
Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#9I love the OtherUnix page.
There's a link to a Hungarian company called Unix Autó who have a product called InfoMix - which I initially scanned as Informix. That would've been a coincidence too far.
Re: Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
#10The wayback machine has snapshots of this, including one taken today, June 4. [1] I hope the current error is just something transient and will be resolved soon. I also hope someone has contacts for the website to alert them. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.bell...
What error are you seeing? I'm seeing the same page in the archive as on the live site.
If you reload it you'll get a periodic 503. It's not consistent.