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From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] More versions in the tree (was: Unix Tree: side scrolling)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:02:16 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100307060216.GE98136@dereel.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100307051407.GB24920@bitmover.com>

On Saturday,  6 March 2010 at 21:14:08 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> I also want to add these other releases:
>>         4BSD
>>         4.1BSD which one?
>
> 4.1c was the one that worked, right?

Well, it's interesting as the first operating system with support for
TCP/IP, so I'd vote for that too.

>> I still seriously want to get a copy of SysVR4.2, which will go ...
>
> SysVR4.2 was never my favorite.  System V in general was a poor
> excuse for a Unix release.

Heh.  All the more reason to have a representative of the branch, so
that people can see for themselves.

> We still have SCO running here and it's pretty close to Sys V

Possibly it would look that way revisited now.  It certainly didn't to
us 20 years ago.  We were running, well, System V.2, and we wanted a
UNIX for our PCs.  We ended up with Interactive, which was a whole lot
better than SCO.

Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-07  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-01  4:37 [TUHS] New Unix Tree website Warren Toomey
2010-03-01  4:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-03-01  5:21   ` Warren Toomey
2010-03-01  6:49     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-03-01  5:32   ` John Cowan
2010-03-06 14:27 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2010-03-06 22:33   ` Warren Toomey
2010-03-07 12:08     ` Cyrille Lefevre
2010-03-07  2:14   ` [TUHS] Unix Tree: side scrolling Warren Toomey
2010-03-07  2:30     ` Jason Stevens
2010-03-07  5:15       ` Larry McVoy
     [not found]       ` <20100307134709.GA2730@minnie.tuhs.org>
2010-03-07 17:17         ` [TUHS] Unix Tree: demos Jason Stevens
     [not found]           ` <20100307220030.GA14913@minnie.tuhs.org>
2010-03-08  0:06             ` Jason Stevens
     [not found]               ` <20100308002622.GA19400@minnie.tuhs.org>
2010-03-08  0:34                 ` Jason Stevens
2010-03-07  5:14     ` [TUHS] Unix Tree: side scrolling Larry McVoy
2010-03-07  6:02       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2010-03-07  8:50         ` [TUHS] First TCP/IP implementation (was: Re: More versions in the tree (was: Unix Tree: side scrolling)) Jochen Kunz
2010-03-08  1:48     ` [TUHS] hyphen.c, was Unix Tree Warren Toomey
2010-03-08  4:25       ` Derek Peschel
2010-03-08  5:59       ` Ian King
2010-03-09  1:37     ` [TUHS] Unix Tree: 4BSDs now in Warren Toomey
2010-03-09  9:38     ` [TUHS] Unix Tree: side scrolling Cyrille Lefevre
2010-03-09 13:22     ` Michael Kerpan
2010-03-09 21:05       ` [TUHS] Unix Tree: what else? Warren Toomey
2010-03-17  3:43 ` [TUHS] New Unix Tree website Warren Toomey
2010-03-17  3:56   ` Larry McVoy

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