* "Unix-based mallet" ???
@ 1999-08-06 3:03 Greg Lehey
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From: Greg Lehey @ 1999-08-06 3:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
Does anybody here have an idea what this could be?
Greg
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> 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
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> Could someone please explain the joke. :)
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Subject: Re: "Unix-based mallet" ???
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In article by Greg Lehey:
> Does anybody here have an idea what this could be?
>
> Greg
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> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Baird <cjb at brushtail.apana.org.au> -----
> > While looking over userland source, calendar(1)'s calendar.computer
> > mentions:
> > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
> > Could someone please explain the joke. :)
I can't find it in V6/V7/2.11, which version of Unix and calendar(1)?
Cheers,
Warren
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Subject: Re: "Unix-based mallet" ???
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On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 01:20:44PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> In article by Greg Lehey:
> > Does anybody here have an idea what this could be?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Chris Baird <cjb at brushtail.apana.org.au> -----
> > > While looking over userland source, calendar(1)'s calendar.computer
> > > mentions:
> > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
> > > Could someone please explain the joke. :)
>
> I can't find it in V6/V7/2.11, which version of Unix and calendar(1)?
At least on FreeBSD it is in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer.
Cannot check other versions at the moment.
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Subject: Re: "Unix-based mallet" ???
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In article by Joerg B. Micheel:
> > > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
> > I can't find it in V6/V7/2.11, which version of Unix and calendar(1)?
> At least on FreeBSD it is in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer.
> Cannot check other versions at the moment.
> Joerg
It's also in 4.4-Lite, Iguess we'll have to backtrack to find when it was
added.
Warren
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According to the SCCS records on Kirk McKusick's 4th CD,
/usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer was:
date and time created 89/11/27 14:10:01 by bostic
Mind you, this was obviously the first time it was checked into SCCS.
I'll keep looking. We could ask Keith what he know about it.
Warren
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On Friday, 6 August 1999 at 13:51:30 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> According to the SCCS records on Kirk McKusick's 4th CD,
> /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer was:
> date and time created 89/11/27 14:10:01 by bostic
> Mind you, this was obviously the first time it was checked into SCCS.
> I'll keep looking. We could ask Keith what he knows about it.
Well, the earliest calendar.computer files I can find, apart from the
SCCS record, are:
Distributions/4bsd/43reno.vax/src.tar, calendar.computer dated 1989/11/28
Distributions/4bsd/net2/net2.tar, calendar.computer dated 1989/11/28
Distributions/4bsd/43reno.vax/usr.tar, calendar.computer dated 1990/07/29
[from the PUPS Archive] so the finger of suspicion does point at Keith Bostic.
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> Sounds reasonable. You want to [ask Keith]?
Yep, I'll fire off some email now.
Cheers all,
Warren
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>>>>> "Warren" == Warren Toomey <wkt at henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> writes:
Warren> According to the SCCS records on Kirk McKusick's 4th CD,
Warren> /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer was:
Warren> date and time created 89/11/27 14:10:01 by bostic
A Mallet is an articulated steam locomotive (named after Anatole
Mallet, a Frenchman). 1954 would have been in the midst of their
heydays. Often used for hauling logs. Now, how did UNIX get
involved???? 1954 predates UNIX as we know it, so it's probably
something else or a spoof....
Peter C
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