* [9fans] Re: rc
@ 2000-07-18 17:52 erik quanstrom
2000-07-19 3:44 ` Lucio De Re
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2000-07-18 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:29:16AM -0700, Randolph Fritz wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:21:58PM +0200, boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com wrote:
> > >
> > > used the unix rc for years; well written, solid as a rock.
> > >
> >
> > I've switched, myself. I rewrote one script in rc and decided it was
> > time. :) Now if only mk would become standard on Unix...
> >
> Amusingly, Linux came out originally with RC as its shell, and that led
> me to the original Plan 9 papers, and from there to Plan 9. I presume
> I'm the only one who got here _that_ route!?
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.
there were some signal problems with my port (the awk script that munched some
system headers to generate a list of signals didn't work with linux's
odd header structure). and this port never made it off michael's box.
my memory's fading but i believe that bash and ash were installed on
michael's box at the time. bash development preceeded rc development by
about 18 months, as i recall.
erik
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* Re: [9fans] Re: rc
2000-07-18 17:52 [9fans] Re: rc erik quanstrom
@ 2000-07-19 3:44 ` Lucio De Re
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From: Lucio De Re @ 2000-07-19 3:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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
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