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nivertech
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The Origins of the "++" and "--" Operators
I think this is about pre/post increment/decrement being inspired by PDP-7, not about C pointer arithmetics being inspired by PDP-11 ISA addressing modes[1].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture#General_re...
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