14 Sep
2017
14 Sep
'17
8:10 a.m.
I didn't see a lot but Shannon was very sensitive to appearing professional.
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 08:18:06PM -0400, Henry Bent wrote:
Were there really that many comments that needed
censoring? It would be
nice to have the idealism to think of Sun as a freewheeling, uncensored
alternative to the corporate structure of DEC and IBM, but having seen the
"released" source for the early '90s Unix operating systems of all three
I
never saw anything to indicate that there were censored inline curses
anywhere. If anything, the DEC sources are now more informational by
virtue of still having a mostly complete changelog in the header.
-Henry
On 13 September 2017 at 19:55, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> Yeah but not the SCCS history. And the source tapes went through Bill
>> Shannon who would grep the source for swear words and other stuff before
>> blessing it. At least that's how it was when I was there.
>>
>
> I would love to see his list; I might learn a few new words :-)
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
>
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