Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler
Updated with links to tellings of the story from @JohnMashey.
@rsc
Thanks, as you linked there, the short Mastodon thread on ken's hack is
https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/109991275086879095
It helps to know that of Bell Labs departments, PWB was unusually close with ken, dmr, etc, in part because our Dept Head, Rudd Canaday had been in Research, was the 3rd author on file system patent application (alluded to in https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.pdf). PIcking up new software not yet in major release was something we did all the time.