When I first got in touch with C it was in the early 1980's. I
was a sysadmin at a Swedish telco operator (then THE Swedish
Telco operator, Televerket, nowadays called Telia) for a system
used for software development for a PABX system called A345 in
Sweden, better known as Meridian in the rest of the world
(co-developed by Televrket and Nortel). The Meridian system was
the biggest of the non-custom built PABXes in those days. The
language used to program it was called SL-1 (Switching Language
1) and the development system, like editors (vi / ined),
compilers etc was running on a Unix system.
This sure was one of the earliest commercial uses for Unix, the
Unix variant was version 6 and was not a BSD or anything like
that, this was way before BSD really. Rather, the system was
built by Interactive Systems which was the first commercial Unix
vendor. This was version Interactive 2.5, based on Unix version
6, mind you. sh and csh only, no …
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