How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf]
The DR. Jupiter hypothesis:<p>FOURier analysis of the Poisson distribution of DR's thesis
hints at the possibility that had Bob Bemer[0] been able to golf ASCII,<p>DR might have joined the selectra golf club and forgone the unix/multics debate. aka made full use of the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter (MT/ST) model.<p>if "Mathematicians Complete Quest to Build ‘Spherical Cubes’"[1] had just been available to Bob Bemer....<p>[0] : <a href="https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/selectric/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/selectric...</a><p>[1] : <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-complete-quest-to-build-spherical-cubes-20230210/" rel="nofollow">https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-complete-quest...</a>