Dennis Ritchie's PhD Dissertation [pdf]
Posted by keepamovin 15 hours ago
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Comment by gnabgib 14 hours ago
Somewhat related: How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf] (477 points, 2023, 168 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35177110
Comment by SetTheorist 14 hours ago
Background discussion:
https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies...
Comment by sizzzzlerz 14 hours ago
Typing an equation-heavy PhD dissertation in the days before word processors or tools like LaTeX were available must have been only slightly less involved than the research being written up.