20 Feb
2017
20 Feb
'17
8:52 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 09:33:24PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
That's the first practice I've heard about the Research Unix team that
is disappointing. It would be oh so valuable to see the history in
SCCS.
Once SCCS was
heavily used, was there a codebase that housed all of these distributions?
No. The Research Unix team was small, had no responsibility to
support old versions, and eschewed paperwork. But we were
conscientiouws about maintaining the manual and fixing bugs.
Close personal contact kept things on track; SCCS was never
used. Because of frequent exchanges of software, there
may be hints of Research activity in PWB SCCS records.