23 Feb
2017
23 Feb
'17
9:31 p.m.
On 21 February 2017 at 23:17, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote (in part):
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:07:20PM -0500, Dan Cross
wrote (in part):
Agreement here. I was a grad student at Toronto but in math, not CS.
Outside CS were the hoi-poli. (But there was a lively MINIX
community, especially in biomed.)
N.
I can say from first-hand experience that it was
NOT easy to get access to
Unix source code there.
My experience at UWisc-Madison, during the time they were working on
4.3-Uwisc, matches Dan's pretty well.
I don't think it was like what Clem says for most people. Clem went
to CMU if I remember correctly, that puts him in a pretty elite class
right there. I can easily imagine that the CMU CS department let all
their students have access to the source if they wanted it. I don't
think that was anywhere near as common as Clem thinks it was.