How Unix made it to the top

Re:How Unix made it to the top by greglindahl on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:33AM (#13204510)

TeX was and is available on a large number of OSes. I was very happy being to run a 'large' TeX instance on my Atari ST with 1 MB of ram, it could easily typeset my undergraduate thesis.

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Re:How Unix made it to the top by qwertyuiop924 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @10:34AM (#13206136)

Indeed. TeX later moved to Pascal, but was originally written in SAIL for use on WAITS. GLS ported it to ITS (the first ever port of TeX), and also was responsible for lobbying Knuth to make it Turing-Complete.

Man, is there any part of modern computing that doesn't have GLS's fingerprints on it?

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Re:How Unix made it to the top by more_original on Sunday December 18, 2016 @10:52AM (#13206180)

For anyone else wondering: GLS = Guy L. Steele (this took me quite a while)

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