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bryanrasmussen on Oct 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ken Thompson's Unix Password

That password was pretty long - could be a complete windowing system written in J.

soohyung on Oct 9, 2019 [–]

The password is only the last 8 characters, everything before the colon is the password's hash.

bryanrasmussen on Oct 9, 2019 | [–]

I'm certainly not going to let reality get in the way of a joke about the compact expressiveness of J.

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