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<p>One day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt
Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting group, and we
were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.</p>
<p><strong>It was a dark and stormy night…</strong></p>
<p>OK, let’s go back to 1984, not 1830: one day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel
and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting
group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.</p>
<p>Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code <code>#define</code>d
to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the <code>finger(1)</code>
program from early BSD (a bug ridden <code>finger</code> implementation to be sure).</p>
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One day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt
Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting group, and we
were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.
**It was a dark and stormy night...**
OK, let's go back to 1984, not 1830: one day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel
and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting
group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.
Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code `#define`d
to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the `finger(1)`