From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:44:29 +0200 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: rc Message-ID: <20000719054429.A3081@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from erik quanstrom on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:52:21PM +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e38f9238-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:52:21PM +0000, erik quanstrom wrote: > > that's not my recollection. in 1992 i talked michael k johnson into letting > me use his pre-1.0 linux box to port rc because -- as far as we could tell -- > nobody'd done it. > Curious. If Linux hadn't had rc when I first encountered it (really early days - 1992 seems already late, what with Linux sitting in the 0.xx for quite a while), I wouldn't have met Plan 9 that soon. But it is from memory. Bash may well have been an option, but in the Minix filesystem, it would have been a real hog. Specially if GCC was still growing up at the time :-) I hope I'm not distorting history. ++L