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Except most likely it wasn't bash shell, or maybe it was, but it was written on an HP-UX and never ported to anything else.

Likewise the C code might eventually be written in K&R C still, make assumptions of byte ordering on the MIPS and memory access semantics of workstation it was originally targeted for, and with luck use SGIPro extensions.




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