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@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 :-)

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