6 Aug
2023
6 Aug
'23
8:19 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 7:15 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Paul, the other thing I should point out -- ghg's
work was
widely distributed amount the BSD licenses. I somewhat wonder why the Naval
Post Grad school's work was not. My guess is that USENIX was still in its
formative stages when the latter did their work, whereas, by the time of
George's hack, BSD/Vaxen was being used for teaching as University
timesharing systems so his 'upgrade' was a cheap solution.
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Also the Naval Post Grad work was on a fairly specialized MP pdp-11/50
system that wasn't super easy to build... plus the paper was declassified,
but it's not clear that the code ever was, or even submitted for
declassification. It was super early still in the unix sharing culture
evolution and wide-spread distribution didn't catch on. Plus, it was for a
funky odd custom thing, which limited people wanting to ask for it.
Warner