19 Dec
2015
19 Dec
'15
7:36 p.m.
Right. Obviously Doug can supply the details, but I recall that around 1972
or so Dick Haight used to go over from Piscataway to Murray Hill to get a
new system, and there would be some sort of indication about whether it was
a good day or a bad day to make a tape.
--Marc
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:18 AM, John Cowan <cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
Mark Longridge scripsit:
There's no other trace of getpid in v5 as
it's not in the v5 manual
and there's no getpid.s in the disk image. I'm not sure if having
getpid in v5 is anomalous or not, perhaps you or someone else can
actually remember as I'm a johnny-come-lately to the party. There's
even some commands mentioned in the v4 manual that don't exist in the
v5 disk image.
The manuals were versioned, but the tapes were not: each tape represents
a snapshot of the research system on that particular day, so what you find
there isn't closely correlated with any manual version.
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