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1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

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414 points henry_flower | 6 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.857s | source | bottom
1. WhyNotHugo ◴[19 Feb 25 23:43 UTC] No.43109285[source]▶
1328 bytes for a hello world? BLOAT!
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2. ramon156 ◴[19 Feb 25 23:51 UTC] No.43109352[source]▶
Time to rice my unix!
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3. ptspts ◴[20 Feb 25 00:24 UTC] No.43109631[source]▶
My https://github.com/pts/minilibc686 can do printf-hello-world on i386 in less than 1 KiB. write-hello-world is less than 170 bytes.
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4. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[20 Feb 25 02:51 UTC] No.43110537[source]▶
Hm. I wonder how hard it would be to write a neofetch (...er, "oldfetch"?) for v1 Unix. Maybe hardcode some of it? Should work.
5. runlevel1 ◴[20 Feb 25 09:34 UTC] No.43112799[source]▶
That reminded me of the compiler that used to include a large poem in every binary, just for shits and giggles. You've heard of a magic number, it had a magic sonnet.

I thought it was early versions of the Rust compiler, but I can't seem to find any references to it. Maybe it was Go?

EDIT: Found it: 'rust-lang/rust#13871: "hello world" contains Lovecraft quotes' https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871

6. kragen ◴[21 Feb 25 10:47 UTC] No.43126131[source]▶
Very nice!