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From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] too good to pass up (SRB Comments)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:06:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89f01fd7951e3d99cbfaaf3e1f7be17e@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <922893ddae61833eb950fcf61c2af167@collyer.net>

i read this several weeks ago.  thanks for taking the time to document this.
i found it very instructive.

- erik

On Fri Apr 28 16:14:49 CDT 2006, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> The cleanup I did was relatively late in the game (1988) and was done
> to the Ninth Edition Unix sh.  My stak.c is available at my web page
> (www.collyer.net/who/geoff) but the fixes didn't get back into most
> shells (Cray may have picked them up).
>
> As I noted in the corresponding paper, A Partial Tour Through the UNIX
> Shell,
>
> 	The shell was the last program ported to the Interdata during
> 	the original UNIX port, due to the difficulty of getting the
> 	details of restarting faulting instructions just right, which
> 	is why the Seventh Edition (also known as ``V7'') distribution
> 	tape includes /bin/osh, the Sixth Edition shell.
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-28 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-28 13:30 erik quanstrom
2006-04-28 21:13 ` geoff
2006-04-28 21:06   ` quanstro [this message]
2006-04-30 10:35   ` Richard Miller
2006-05-01  1:01     ` geoff
2006-05-01  9:21       ` Richard Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-28 13:01 [9fans] too good to pass up erik quanstrom
2006-04-28 13:10 ` [9fans] too good to pass up (SRB Comments) Brantley Coile
2006-05-02  6:32   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-05-01 21:22     ` Taj Khattra

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