On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:11:15PM +0200, Michele Ghisolfo wrote:
> > Contrary to a lot of the distant opinions here,
> > SVr4 was actually a joint project between USL
> > (the AT&T commercial-UNIX organization) and Sun.
> > The intent was to bring together the two different
> > commercial-UNIX cults (what Stu Feldman once referred
> > to as Sunni and Shiite UNIX).
> >
> > I was at Bell Labs while this was going on, but
> > well off to the side of the effort, in a research
> > group where we tended (foolishly) to look down
> > our noses a bit at the whole thing. I do know that
> > there were a lot of ruffled feathers within USL
> > about the allegedly overbearing Sun guys, and it
> > wouldn't surprise me a bit to hear that there
> > were similar feelings going the other way. On
> > the other hand there were some pretty smart
> > people involved at a technical level on all
> > sides.
> >
> > Certainly it wasn't a one-way street, with BSD-isms
> > being injected into a USG system or vice versa.
> >
> > Norman Wilson
> > Toronto ON
>
> Thanks, Norman. This clarify a lot my confusion about SysV.
>
> I'm reading the J. Lions Commentary to V6 UNIX, the ancestor of all
> UNIXes, including SysV (if I understood correctly). The last Research
> Unix release was Tenth Edition Unix. Is the source code of
> releases 8, 9 and 10 available? Are there other commentaries of ancient
> Research Unixes, like Lions book?
>
>
> Thanks,
> --Michele
>
> P.S. to Cyrille: Again, my apologies for the confusion. I realized my
> mistake just after I sent the mail. I'm really sorry!
>
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