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by Jason Stevens

I didn't see it as immeditaly obvious on slackware 1.0 ... or SLS .. it very well may have been some addon or something somehwere.... If anyone knew it's filename that'd go a long long way! :) -----Original Message----- From: Derrik Walker [mailto:lorddoomicus@mac.com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 12:36 PM To: Gregg Levine Cc: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org Subject: Re: [TUHS] b remnants? On Oct 14, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Derrik Walker <lorddoomicus(a)mac.com> wrote: > > Many, many eons ago, in the early '90's, there was an implementation of B > > for Linux ( I believe it was written in C, ironically enough ). I think it > > was part of a bigger collection of "ancient" software for Linux that use to > > be around in the early Slackware days. > > > > Alas, I have searched for it in the recent past, as I was thinking about > > porting it to OS X for kicks, but it seems to have vanished. > > > > Having an B, implemented in a modern language for a modern OS would be cool. > > > > > Hello! > How early a time period for the Slackware Linux group? (Which is what > I run.) There's a repository of older distributions on the Ibib site, > and a more comprehensive one situated on a mirror in the UK. It would have been around '92 or '93, back when Slackware really only provided a very basic boot system, gcc, some fancy scripts, and a crap load of tarballs to compile everything. I'm not even sure it was part of the Slackware collection, it might have been something someone added to the server - I didn't build that computer. It was an experimental system at CSU, where I was going to school at the time - and the first actually Linux computer I ever had an account on. One of the older professors had a bunch of B code he got from someplace and put the compiler on there to see if he could get it to build. I remember he also put f2c on there too as he had a tape full of Fortran code he wanted to compile. But, for all I know, he may have written the B compiler himself, but I seem to remember him telling me about this collection of ancient software for Linux that someone else had written, and he had gotten it up and running on the experimental Linux system. Just not sure how faulty my memory is. I just remember looking at B, and asking why he just doesn't covert it to C? Funny thing was, some of the younger professors were complaining saying the preferred their "REAL UNIX". Unfortunately, he as long since retired. And that Computer was retired when they moved the main Student system from HPUX to Redhat in the late '90's. - Derrik

13 years, 3 months

Mirror with link

by Jose R. Valverde

Just for the record. The correct way to mirror a site with links corrected is wget -c -m -k -np -e robots=off URL Seems most people have problem remembering this incantation. -- EMBnet/CNB Scientific Computing Service Solving all your computer needs for Scientific Research. http://bioportal.cnb.csic.es http://www.es.embnet.org

13 years, 3 months

Re: [TUHS] RIP Dennis

by Jose R. Valverde

We could set up a web site inmemoriamdmr.org maybe initially as a wiki and ask people to add their contribution and then maybe we could try to collect there his works or add a blog with articles about him that could be commented... Just an idea, I am in the middle of a Congress, seated in the front row and trying to listen to speakers through my consternation, and can do very little now. j -- EMBnet/CNB Scientific Computing Service Solving all your computer needs for Scientific Research. http://bioportal.cnb.csic.es http://www.es.embnet.org

13 years, 3 months

Re: [TUHS] dmr has passed away

by Jose R. Valverde

Truly a great loss. I just saw this (I have traveling to some international meetings). I wonder if we could come up with a way to pay hommage to him all together to acknowledge his legacy. Don't know what could be best, but I am sure there are people here who knew him and through their consternation can give us an idea of what would be the best way to publicly honor him. Can we all get together to do something jointly for him? I guess a global collaborative initiative would be most in his spirit and philosophy of life. Dunno, maybe create web site to celebrate him. Where everybody can leave a testimony of how his work has affected our lives. j -- EMBnet/CNB Scientific Computing Service Solving all your computer needs for Scientific Research. http://bioportal.cnb.csic.es http://www.es.embnet.org

13 years, 3 months

Re: [TUHS] Mirror for http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/

by Warren Toomey

True. I had to mirror via ftp as the robots.txt stopped the http mirroring. It should be possible to fix the mirror in the tarball. I'll see what I can do. Thanks, Warren -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Hans Ottevanger <hansot(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote: > All, I've taken a mirror of http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ > and placed it at http://minnie.tuhs.org/dmr/ > > Feel free to mirror from minnie, in case the Labs' server gets overloaded. > It's 112 Megs. > Warren, Thanks for this excellent action, but your links are still absolute, i.e. point to the original content on the Bell Labs website. If that content disappears for whatever reason you will have a lot of links to convert. Kind regards, Hans Ottevanger

13 years, 3 months

Re: [TUHS] Mirror for http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/

by Warren Toomey

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:02:08PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >Feel free to mirror from minnie, in case the Labs' server gets overloaded. > >It's 112 Megs. > > A tarball, perhaps? Of course. ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/misc/dmr_cm.bell-labs_mirror.tar.gz 90M Cheers, Warren

13 years, 3 months

Death of dmr

by Greg 'groggy' Lehey

For those of you who haven't heard yet, dmr died on Sunday. Rob Pike announced it at https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP I don't know what to say. A *real* giant is dead. And almost the saddest thing is that nobody has paid any attention. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer Finger grog(a)FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua

13 years, 3 months

Mirror for http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/

by Warren Toomey

All, I've taken a mirror of http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ and placed it at http://minnie.tuhs.org/dmr/ Feel free to mirror from minnie, in case the Labs' server gets overloaded. It's 112 Megs. Cheers, Warren

13 years, 3 months

dmr has passed away

by Warren Toomey

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en I just heard that, after a long illness, Dennis Ritchie (dmr) died at home this weekend. I have no more information. I trust there are people here who will appreciate the reach of his contributions and mourn his passing appropriately. He was a quiet and mostly private man, but he was also my friend, colleague, and collaborator, and the world has lost a truly great mind. - Pob Pike With great thanks and appreciation to him, Warren

13 years, 3 months

Dennis Ritchie...rip?

by Jason Stevens

wikipedia is listing that Dennis Ritchie just passed.. If that is so, then it really is a sad week to lose such a visionary. I wish I had some real details, but Rob Pike has it mentioned on his google+ account.... https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP?hl=en

13 years, 3 months

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