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Nerd-snipping of the day - a sharp programmer on a Chinese forum noticed an extremely obscure fact about K&R - its Courier font is unusual and doesn't seem to match any of the modern or common versions of Courier we know today. So now I find myself hunting for technical references of that Autologic APS-5 machine used by K&R. #retrocomputing #unix
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