21 Mar
2018
21 Mar
'18
11:18 p.m.
Along the same lines:
As UNIX *transitioned from the relative safety of academia (V7) into the cold, cruel
corporate world (System V), was there a corresponding effort to maintain and protect the
UNIX codebase into a unified master repository with SCCS, for example?
Is there any chance of finding a publicly available UNIX archive that includes the
corresponding SCCS data for UNIX---to the extent that SCCS deltas and PRS comments can be
examined?
Bill Corcoran
(*) IMHO
On Mar 21, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
. . .
Given that the comments never made it into the compiled code, there
was no space reason to omit comments. There must have been another
reason.
Cheers, Warren