26 May
2024
26 May
'24
5:06 a.m.
Reminds me of my typesetting story (search the list's archives for versatec
and vegents, that should find it.)
-rob
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 10:17 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Oh how I hate history rewrites. Job control was
developed by Kulp on V7
in Europe and MIT. Joy saw it and added it what would become 4BSD.
The others were all developed on V7 (PDP11)at UCB. They were not back
ported either. The vax work inherited them from V7.
It is true, The public tended to see these as 4BSD features as that was
the vehicle that got larger distribution.
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 6:49 AM Jonathan Gray <jsg(a)jsg.id.au> wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 07:03:48PM -0500, G.
Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm finding it difficult to find any direct sources on the question in
the subject line.
Does anyone here have any source material they can point me to
documenting the existence of a port of BSD curses to Unix Version 7?
"In particular, the C shell, curses, termcap, vi and job control were
ported back to Version 7 (and later System III) so that it was not
unusual to find these features on otherwise pure Bell releases."
from Documentation/Books/Life_with_Unix_v2.pdf
in some v7ish distributions: unisoft, xenix, nu machine, venix?
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/codata/Unisoft_UNIX_Vol_1_Aug82.pdf pg 437
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_codataUnis_28082791/page/n435/mode/2up
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/forwardTechnology/xenix/Xenix_System_Volume_2_Sof…
pg 580
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_forwardTecstemVolume2SoftwareDevelopm…
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/UNIX_1.pdf pg 412
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_lmiLMIDocs_20873181/page/n411/mode/2up