I think the 'd' slipped in during some editing. I've removed it. cagbef it
is.

Don't confuse quiz answers with absolute truth. All history is fiction to
some extent.

-rob


On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 7:43 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:42 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Berkeley's license was executed in January 74, so it might be on the
>> list, unless there was a big delay.
>>
> That makes sense.
>
>
>> In addition to the Nov 1975 CACM paper, there's CAC 155, published by the
>> University of Illinois on 3/15/75 which pre-dates the 6th edition by a few
>> months. You can read it here
>> https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/32547/networkunixsyste155holm.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y if
>> you'd like.
>>
> Thanks, that tells us it was 5th (BTW the PDF is missing page 1 in the
> scan - although I suspect the missing info can be gleaned from RFC 681)
>
> BTW: There is another hint in CAC 155/RFC 681.  The line on page 2 that
> reads: "since the user is allowed only sixteen open files."   My memory
> is V6 allowed more than 16, over 20 is my memory; but we would have to look
> at the structure to see what it is defined as.
>
>
>
>>
>> RFC 681, dated March 18th, 1975, is another instance of an edited CAC 155
>> report  (it seems, I've not looked at them exactly, just a quick glance)
>> that talks about this work. It's the earliest mention of Unix in an RFC
>> (the next one isn't until 2 years later for an email address for Dave
>> Crocker DCrocker@Rand-Unix in RFC 724 in May 1977 after which it
>> explodes in references).
>>
> And that pretty much syncs with my memory of the time.
>