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## Description
#### Problematic code: ```bash printf "Hello, $NAME\n" ``` #### Preferred code: ```bash printf "Hello, %s\n" "$NAME" ``` `printf` interprets escape sequen…
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## Description
#### Problematic code: ```bash printf "Hello, $NAME\n" ``` #### Preferred code: ```bash printf "Hello, %s\n" "$NAME" ``` `printf` interprets escape sequen…
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From Usenet alt.sys.pdp10, Message-ID: \#1/1
Tom Knight wrote:
> > how much did CTSS influence the design of ITS?
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> Well, it certainly affected its name... But, speaking more to the point,…
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@eswenson1 wrote:
> While an undergraduate at MIT between 1976 and 1980 I became introduced to Adventure and Dungeon (Zork) and spent many hours with both games. One might say I became obsessed wit…
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There are a bunch of missing LISP packages from the LISP; directory. Here is a list:
- [x] BITS FASL
- [x] BS FASL
- [x] CGPRIN FASL
- [x] DEBUG FASL
- [x] DRAMMP FASL
- [x] FUNCEL FASL
- [x…
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Files from December 1977.
LCF; ACT1 38
LCF; NNP NBIN
LCF; NP 93
LCF; NDEFS NBIN
LCF; NP 92
LCF; DEFS 63
LCF; MAKSTR NBIN
LCF; MAKSTR 7
LCF; NROOMS NBIN
LCF; ROOMS 99
LCF; DUNGZ 56
LCF; N…
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Chapter 30 discusses “NaN boxing” as an optimization, and there is an aside mentioning how the source of this kind of technique is obscure.
The first use was in the original Lisp implementation at …
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Notes about the origin of the Knight TV system.
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DPRINT.FASL is compiled from ALAN; DPRINT 142. This file, however, is damaged. It has garbage at the beginning of the file, then the actual DPRINT 142 begins, but then ends in the middle of the INSPEC…
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I noticed that inquir has a [proprietary software](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) license on it. I wonder if anyone has contacted MIT about changing this? But then that got me wondering:…
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