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A comment on Ask HN: If Unix is written in C, how did they run C before Unix?.

Re:Ask HN: If Unix is written in C, how did they run C befor... by coliveira on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:03PM (#35442712)
The question is malformed because there is no need for Unix to run C programs. In theory they could have created C without an OS. However, in practice C was written to rewrite Unix in a high level language (previously it was assembly).
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