From: cowan@ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] SYSV & TCP/IP on the VAX...
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:06:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090527030652.GA29941@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46b366130905261710v65dda4cbr9a971b404716ecda@mail.gmail.com>
Jason Stevens scripsit:
> I guess so... then I was just looking on google, SYSVR4 was released
> in 1988. It's kind of sad to think NOTHING signifigant happened in
> the last 20 1/2 years, and that 1988 was the pinical of UNIX...
"UNIX" is no longer the name of a codebase. Technically, it is the name
of a set of standards; in practice, it (usually written "Unix") is the
name of an evolving design tradition.
--
John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big
thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script. One of the geologists
came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too.
Try hanging up and phoning in again.' --Beverly Erlebacher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 23:45 Jason Stevens
2009-05-26 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2009-05-26 23:57 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-26 23:59 ` Larry McVoy
2009-05-27 0:10 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-27 3:06 ` John Cowan [this message]
2009-05-27 3:35 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-27 4:05 ` M. Warner Losh
2009-05-27 0:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-05-27 1:06 ` Corey Lindsly
2009-05-27 4:36 ` Gregg C Levine
2009-05-27 0:25 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-05-27 17:39 Brian S Walden
2009-05-27 18:20 ` Larry McVoy
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