Bit hard to classify this one; separate posts since COFF was created?
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (and daughter of Lord Byron), was
born on this day in 1815; arguably the world's first computer programmer and a
highly independent woman, she saw the potential in Charles Babbage's
new-fangled invention.
J.F.Ossanna was given unto us on this day in 1928; a prolific programmer, he
not only had a hand in developing Unix but also gave us the ROFF series.
Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday?
-- Dave
Moo and hunt-the-wumpus got quite a lot of play
both in the lab and at home. Wump was an instant
hit with my son who was 4 or 5 years old at the
time.
Amusingly, I speculated on how to generate degree-3
graphs for wump, but obviously not very deeply. It
was only much later that I realized the graph
always had the same topology--a dodecahedron.
Doug\
We lost Dr. John Lions on this day in 1998; he was one of my Comp Sci
lecturers (yes, I helped him write The Book, and yes, you'll find my name
in the back).
-- Dave
I’m looking for the origins of SLIP and PPP on Unix. Both seem to have been developed long before their RFC’s appeared.
As far as I can tell, SLIP originally appeared in 3COM’s UNET for the PDP11, around 1980. From the TUHS Unix tree, first appearance in BSD seems to be 4.3 (1986).
Not sure when PPP first appeared, but the linux man page for pppd has a credit that goes back to Carnegie Mellon 1984. First appearance in BSD seems to be FreeBSD 5.3 (2004), which seems improbably late (same source).
Paul
Hello All.
Anyone who pulled the code for v10spell that I made available a few
months ago should 'make clean', 'git pull', and 'make'.
A critical bug has been fixed for 64 bit systems, and the code has
had some additional cleanups and the doc updated some as well.
The repos is at git://github.com/arnoldrobbins/v10spell.
Enjoy,
Arnold
> From: Paul Ruizendaal
> I'm looking for the origins of SLIP and PPP on Unix. Both seem to have
> been developed long before their RFC's appeared.
You're dealing with an epoch when the IETF motto - "rough consensus and
running code" - really meant something. Formal RFC's way lagged protocol
development; they're the last step in the process, pretty much.
If you want to study the history, you'd need to look at Internet Drafts (if
they're still online). Failing that, look at the IETF Proceedings; I think
all the ones from this period have been scanned in. They won't have the
detail that the I-D's would have, but they should give the rough outlines
of the history.
Noel
I've been fixing and enhancing James Youngman's git-sccsimport to use
with some of my SCCS archives, and I thought it might be the ultimate
stress test of it to convert the CSRG BSD SCCS archives.
The conversion takes about an hour to run on my old-ish Dell server.
This conversion is unlike others -- there is some mechanical compression
of related deltas into a single Git commit.
https://github.com/robohack/ucb-csrg-bsdhttps://github.com/robohack/git-sccsimport
--
Greg A. Woods <gwoods(a)acm.org>
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We lost J.F. Ossanna on this day in 1977; he had a hand in developing Unix, and
was responsible for "roff" and its descendants. Remember him, the next time
you see "jfo" in Unix documentation.
He also accomplished a lot more, too much to summarise here.
-- Dave
