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How Did Dennis Ritchie Produce His PhD Thesis? A Typographical Mystery

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Comments (2)

jonah-archive · 2d ago

Some good discussion in this previous post from 2023 as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35177110

gbacon · 2d ago

See also

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3558100.3563839

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/dmr/

https://dmrthesis.net/