On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> wrote:
Thank you Clem!
​Most welcome.​


 
I added your description of the fsck birth to the repository creation source code.
​Thank you.​


 
I'll also work on injecting the fsck (and SCCS) source code with the correct authorship between BSD-3 and BSD-4. Both made their appearance during that time via CSRG SCCS.
​If I can find and read some old mag tapes with sources, I'll try to get you earlier dates to put into your records.  I'll take that off line.​


 

This is the first CSRG fsck SCCS commit.

Author: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thu Aug 27 06:47:37 1981 -0800

​1981 -- That makes sense...   I would come to UCB in September of '81, but IIRC wnj had spent the summer before @ research; where Ted spent his summers also.   Ted had came to CMU in '76 I believe and developed what would become fsck that year on the EE Digital Lab's 11/34

@ CMU, later in '76, EE & Bio Med got an Unix machine of some flavor, as did Mellon Institute (which would be the system with the first commercial UNIX license for a University).     fsck did not make it over to CS to the 11/40e's until later probably '78, likely by dvk who was not EE but common with me @ Mellon. 

I took it with me to Tektronix in '79.    I think Wayne (an CMU EE UNIX hacker) took his Hawaiian shirts to Cambridge, MA in '78, so that's about the time it would have made it to MIT.

The important point is that fsck was 4-5 years old by the time it made it to UCB and was already migrating to other places via sneaker-net.

Clem