McIlroy:
> [vi] was so excesssive right from the start that I refused to use it.
> Sam was the first screen editor that I deemed worthwhile, and I
> still use it today.
Paulsen:
> my sam build is more than 2 times bigger than Gunnar Ritter's vi
> (or Steve Kirkendall's elvis) and even bigger than Bram Moolenaar's vim.
% wc -c /bin/vi bin/sam bin/samterm
1706152 /bin/vi
112208 bin/sam
153624 bin/samterm
These mumbers are from Red Hat Linux.
The 6:1 discrepancy is understated because
vi is stripped and the sam files are not.
All are 64-bit, dynamically linked.
Clem Cole wrote:
>A heretic!! Believers all know '*Bourne to Program, Type with Joy' *and*
>'One true bracing style' *are the two most important commandments of UNIX
>programmer!
>
>Seriously, I still write my scripts as v7 and use (t)csh as my login shell
>on all my UNIX boxes ;-)
>
>Clem
You know what's amazing? that Bill Joy code to launch either
csh or bourne shell based on the first character of teh file is
still in tcsh codebase today. It even has #! support just in case
your kernel does not. However this code never gets run as
who write scripts without #! anymore .. but here's a little test ---
$ tcsh
You have 2 mail messages.
> cat x1.sh
PATH=/bin
echo $SHELL
> ./x1.sh
/bin/sh
> cat x2.csh
#
setenv path /bin
echo $shell
> ./x2.csh
/usr/local/bin/tcsh
> exit
you can see it in https://github.com/tcsh-org/tcsh/blob/master/sh.exec.c
-Brian
Doug McIlroy wrote:
>Brian Walden's discussion of sh #, etc, is right on.
>However, his etymology for unary * in C can be
>pushed back at least to 1959. * was used for
>indirect addressing in SAP, the assembler for
>the IBM 7090.
Thank you for both the confirmation and also that history update.
-Brian
>
>> From: Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com>
>
>> There's no wupus source before V7.
>
> If you look at Clem's original message:
>
>>> From: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:08:50 -0500
>
>>> You got my curiosity up and found the V5 and V6 source code
>
> (the one Will was replying to), Clem's talking about the source to crt0.s,
> etc.
>
> Noel
>
Sorry. I could have been clearer. I thought Clem was saying that he found the Wumpus code in v5/v6. Now, I see that he was just talking about the crt files. When I said I couldn’t find the source prior to v7, I meant the wumpus source :).
On another note, porting the v7 code to MacOS is tricky, lots of minor differences, but I’m giving it a go. Prolly easier to just figure out what it’s supposed to do and do it with modern idioms, but it’s a fun puzzle to try to replicate the same functionality with only minor adjustments.
Will
> From: Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com>
> There's no wupus source before V7.
If you look at Clem's original message:
>> From: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:08:50 -0500
>> You got my curiosity up and found the V5 and V6 source code
(the one Will was replying to), Clem's talking about the source to crt0.s,
etc.
Noel
> I'm interested in the possible motivations for a redirection to be
> a simple command.
I use it to truncate a file to zero length.
Or to create (an empty) file.
Doug
> From: Will Senn
> On another note,You said you looked in v5 and v6 source code? I looked
> at tuhs and didn't see anything earlier than v7. Where did you find
> them?
Huh? https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl
Noel
i started on the 7th edition on a perkin elmer (ne interdata) - this was v7 with some 2.1bsd sprinkled on top.
i remember the continual annoyance of unpacking shar files starting with hash comments : only on ed7. in the end i wrote a trivial sed to remove them called unshar.
i haven't thought of that for decades...
-Steve
Mike Haertel:
That's amusing, considering that the 5620 stuff was in /usr/jerq on
Research systems! Apparently the accident became institutionalized.
=====
I remember the name Jerq being tossed around to mean 5620
when I was at 1127. That doesn't mean it was historically
accurate, but it is consistent with the directory names, and
the latter are probably where I got my mistaken idea of the
history.
Thanks to Rob, who certainly should know, for clearing it up.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
Brian Walden's discussion of sh #, etc, is right on.
However, his etymology for unary * in C can be
pushed back at least to 1959. * was used for
indirect addressing in SAP, the assembler for
the IBM 7090.
