From: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Subject: When did the `dc' command first appear?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:15:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991026221501.47539@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199910260007.KAA16993@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>; from Warren Toomey on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:07:44AM +1000
On Tuesday, 26 October 1999 at 10:07:44 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> In article by Eric Fischer:
>> Brian D. Chase writes,
>>
>>> Just a quick question. Was the `dc' command introduced with one of the
>>> BSD releases or did it exist in an earlier version of Unix like the 6th or
>>> 7th Edition?
>>
>> It appears in the First Edition manual, and according to A Quarter
>> Century of Unix, it's even older than that.
>> eric
>
> There's a binary of dc from either 1st or 2nd Edition in the PUPS Archive:
>
> -r---wxrw- 0/0 6846 Apr 14 06:50 1973 bin/dc
Wouldn't that be the Third Edition with that timestamp? I won't
comment again about the permissions.
Greg
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1999-10-26 0:07 ` Warren Toomey
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1999-10-27 23:48 ` Warren Toomey
1999-10-25 16:34 Brian D Chase
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