On Saturday, 6 March 2010 at 21:14:08 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
I also want to
add these other releases:
4BSD
4.1BSD which one?
4.1c was the one that worked, right?
Well, it's interesting as the first operating system with support for
TCP/IP, so I'd vote for that too.
I still
seriously want to get a copy of SysVR4.2, which will go ...
SysVR4.2 was never my favorite. System V in general was a poor
excuse for a Unix release.
Heh. All the more reason to have a representative of the branch, so
that people can see for themselves.
We still have SCO running here and it's pretty
close to Sys V
Possibly it would look that way revisited now. It certainly didn't to
us 20 years ago. We were running, well, System V.2, and we wanted a
UNIX for our PCs. We ended up with Interactive, which was a whole lot
better than SCO.
Greg
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