14 Sep
2017
14 Sep
'17
6:18 a.m.
Were there really that many comments that needed censoring? It would be
nice to have the idealism to think of Sun as a freewheeling, uncensored
alternative to the corporate structure of DEC and IBM, but having seen the
"released" source for the early '90s Unix operating systems of all three I
never saw anything to indicate that there were censored inline curses
anywhere. If anything, the DEC sources are now more informational by
virtue of still having a mostly complete changelog in the header.
-Henry
On 13 September 2017 at 19:55, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
Yeah but not the SCCS history. And the source tapes went through Bill
Shannon who would grep the source for swear words
and other stuff before
blessing it. At least that's how it was when I was there.
I would love to see his list; I might learn a few new words :-)
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."