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by froh 454 days ago
yes. the Q you're asking is: "how was this bootstrapped?"

the page that's referenced from GitHub doesn't describe that

http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/primevalC.html

however there probably was a running c compiler (written in assembly) and an assembler and a linker available, hand bootstrapped from machine code, then assembler, linker, then B, NB and then C...

We can't tell but that would make sense...