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Looking back to 1981 - what pascal was popular on what unix?

by Will Senn

I'm reading in, Kernighan & Plauger's 1981 edition of Software Tools in Pascal and in the book, the author's mention Bill Joy's Pascal and Andy Tanenbaum's as being rock solid. So, a few related questions: 1. What edition of UNIX were they likely to be using? 2. What versions of "Standard Pascal" were in vogue on UNIX at the time (1981)? 3. What combinations of UNIX/Pascal were popular? Thanks, Will

3 years, 2 months

BSD 4.1, 4.1x, Quasijarus, and 4.3x

by Will Senn

All, I did my research on this, but it's still a bit fuzzy (why is it that people's memories from 40 years ago are so malleable?). 1. What are y'all's recollections regarding BSD 4.1's releases, vis a vis the VAX. In McKusick's piece, Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix, I get one perspective, and from Sokolov's Quasijarus project, I get quite another. In terms of popularity and in terms of stable performance, what say you? Was 4.1 that much better than 4BSD? Was 4.1as obsolete immediately as McKusick says? 4.1b sounds good with FFS, was it? 4.1c's the last pre 4.2 release, but it sounds like it was nearly a beta version of 4.2... 2. Sokolov implies that the CSRG mission started going off the rails with the 4.3/4.3BSD-Tahoe and it all went pear shaped with the 4.3-Reno release, and that Quasijarus puts the mission back on track, is that so? 3. I've gotten BSD 4.2 and BSD 4.3 releases built from tape and working very well. I just can't decide whether to go back to one of the 4.x releases (hence question 1), or go get Quasijarus0c - thoughts on why one might be more interesting than another? 4. Is Quasijarus0c end of the line for VAX 4.xBSD? Why does tuhs only have Quasijarus0 and 0a, was there something wrong with 0b and 0c? 5. Has anyone unearthed an original 4.1 tape, or is Haertel's reconstruction of the 1981 tape 1 release as close as it gets? Later, Will

3 years, 2 months

1994 One-minute Video for the UNIX 25th Birthday Party

by Brantley Coile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmcSpzpYnRk

3 years, 2 months

Got kicked off list due to DNS Issues

by Justin Andrusk

Back in September I was having serious DNS issues with my MX records. Finally was able to move to a new DNS provider. Could someone add me (jra(a)andrusk.com) back to the mailing list? Thanks, Justin Sent from ProtonMail mobile

3 years, 2 months

calendar events

by norman＠oclsc.org

Whose birthday is it, Ken? Norman Wilson Toronto ON

3 years, 2 months

CSRG at berkeley

by ron minnich

the discussion of why the CSRG disbanded in 1995 has come up elsewhere. My memory is that the reason was pretty simple: DARPA ended their funding at that time. Hoping for corrections to my memory :-)

3 years, 2 months

Re: [TUHS] ratfor vibe

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Clem Cole > So by the late 70s/early 80s, [except for MIT where LISP/Scheme reigned] Not quite. The picture is complicated, because outside the EECS department, they all did their own thing - e.g. in the mid-70's I took a programming intro couse in the Civil Engineering department which used Fortran. But in EECS, in the mid-70's, their intro programming course used assembler (PDP-11), Algol, and LISP - very roughly, a third of the time in each. Later on, I think it used CLU (hey, that was MIT-grown :-). I think Scheme was used later. In both of these cases, I have no idea if it was _only_ CLU/Scheme, or if they did part of it in other languages. Noel

3 years, 2 months

FYI: Internet Old Farts Club

by Rich Morin

Some of the folks here might like this FB group... Internet Old Farts Club https://www.facebook.com/groups/internetoldfarts/ > This group is for self-declared Internet Old Farts, who want to discuss any aspect of the the Internet or its history. People in this group had their bits walk up hill both ways. > Welcome to the Internet Old Farts group. The purpose of this group is both social and technical. Feel free to revisit the past, explore the future, grouse about technical problems that you or others created. Feel free to self-aggrandize, complain about your least favorite standards organization or its politics, and how those young whippersnappers are running the show today. By participating in this group you are admitting or proclaiming that you are indeed an Internet Old Fart. Perhaps we should give a prize for the youngest and oldest Old Fart. -r

3 years, 2 months

Ritchie/Thompson Unix Time-Sharing System in Classic Papers

by Nelson H. F. Beebe

There is a new book from MIT Press, edited by Harry Lewis, with a collection of classic papers in computer science, among them 37: The Unix Time-Sharing System (1974) Dennis Ritchie, Kenneth Thompson DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12274.003.0039 The book Web site is at https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5003/Ideas-That-Created-the-FutureClassic… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3 years, 2 months

Ratfor s

by Will Senn

Has anyone seen Fraser's original ratfor source for the s editor for unix on the PDP-11. It was a screen editor front-end built on top of Software Tools's edit. I've seen a c version, but I'm interested in the 375 line version :). Will Sent from my iPhone

3 years, 2 months

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