there's a plain ksh88 in here: bitsavers/bits/HP/HP_9000/HPUX_9/9.10_S300_Source_Product.cpio.gz The open sourced Solaris 8 tarball contains ksh88i I'm sure there's more ;) But what a shame that the 1985ish ksh got lost. On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 2:44 PM Warren Toomey wrote: > Hi all, I received an e-mail looking for the ksh-88 source code. A quick > search for it on-line doesn't reveal it. Does anybody have a copy? > > Cheers, Warren > > Original e-mail: > I recently built a PiDP11 and have been enjoying going back in time > to 2.11BSD.. I was at UC Davis in the the early 1980's and we had > a few PDP-11/70's running 2.8/2.9 BSD. Back then we reached out to > David Korn and he sent us the source for KSH -- this would have been > in 1985ish if I remember, and we compiled it for 2.9 & 4.1BSD, Xenix, > and some other variants that used K&R C. It may have been what was > later called ksh88. I wish I still had the files from then.. > > I was wondering if you might know if there's an older version like this > or one that's been ported for 2.11BSD? > Many thanks, > Joe >