Bob, The symbols may stem from BCPL, but the idea to use them for MIN and MAX is specific to V7.
In V6, http://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/source/c/c00.c doesn't have them. Leo On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Bob Eager <r...@tavi.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 22:14:42 -0700 > Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com> wrote: > > > https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/4965/4025 > > > > > > In the UNIX V7 version of the C language, there were the /\ (min) and > > the \/ (max) operators. > > As an aside, many will know that C is based on B, and B was based on > BCPL. > > I used BCPL a *lot*. The logical AND operator in BCPL could be written > as: > > AND > & > /\ > > and logical OR could be written as: > > LOGOR > | > \/ > > Perhaps someone decided it would be confusing. > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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