From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Cc: r@golang.org
Subject: Re: [9front] new rc parser: do we want it?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:22:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201015172258.GA243000@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <665608A7-7FEA-446D-B120-2F1BB392A3D2@stanleylieber.com>
Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> once said:
> rc's v10 online man page refers to it as "the plan 9 shell." my print
> edition is in storage, but i don't think it mentioned plan 9. the
> online version may represent a later extraction from the labs' running
> system. plan 9 was percolating at least as early as 1988. it's unclear
> exactly when rc was first written, but based on the timeline of
> releases it first shipped in v10.
The v10 tree on TUHS has /vol2/rc/rc.ms¹ but it's dated 1993-06-19.
The title from that version is "Rc — A shell for Plan 9 and UNIX".
I don't have a copy of the printed v10 manual to check what it
was in 1989/1990. I'd be curious to see what yours says.
Anthony
1. https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V10/vol2/rc/rc.ms
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-15 17:23 UTC|newest]
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2020-10-12 20:44 ` Romano
2020-10-15 10:11 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-10-15 12:11 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-10-15 16:41 ` Romano
2020-10-15 17:22 ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2020-10-15 23:14 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2020-10-15 23:32 ` Stanley Lieber
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2020-10-07 10:00 ` Ethan Gardener
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2020-10-07 4:46 ` ori
2020-10-07 13:06 ` kvik
2020-10-07 3:15 ori
2020-10-07 3:54 ` [9front] " sl
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