5 Mar
2025
5 Mar
'25
2:15 p.m.
On 3/4/25 4:55 PM, Rob Gingell wrote:
On 3/4/25 7:07 AM, Chet Ramey via TUHS wrote:
This would have been 1991-1992, so we were working on mostly 4.3 BSD (me)
and SunOS (Brian). We didn't expect more than K&R from the compiler, even
though we were primarily using gcc. It was before autoconf, so we rolled
our own version to create a `sysdefs.h', and had code to choose between
POSIX, USG, and BSD versions of functions. I don't think it would have
compiled on anything older than possibly 4.2 BSD, and probably not that,
so I think your speculation about the post-V7 runtime support is on the
mark.
Chet
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We expected a lot less from the system and
compiler in the bash-1.12 days;
that helped here.
How would those expectations differ from what V7 provided, as PAUNIX's
ambitions only went that far (not that they couldn't be expanded but...)
The thing is the Harrenstein C must've gotten more complete runtime support
to run 1.12 and seems like that'd exceed V7 and make PAUNIX even more futile.