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From: cowan@ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Origins of drand48()?
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:17:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100402001714.GQ17405@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB52EA7.3000006@laposte.net>

Cyrille Lefevre scripsit:

> the older (c) I found is 1984, but SVR1 seems to be born in 1983 !
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V say SVR2 is 1984)
> as far as I recall me, SVID1 is SVR2, not SVR1.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVID say SVID1 is 1985)

In any case, the code is in a practical sense unencumbered due to the
release of OpenSolaris, because it's embedded inside the OpenSolaris
wrapper essentially unchanged.

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at a block of wood make there an image of a cow,
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-02  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 22:20 Warren Toomey
2010-04-01  1:23 ` John Cowan
2010-04-01  2:01   ` Larry McVoy
2010-04-01  2:23     ` M. Warner Losh
2010-04-01  7:06     ` Michael Davidson
2010-04-01 23:39 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2010-04-02  0:17   ` John Cowan [this message]
2010-04-02  0:39     ` Larry McVoy
2010-04-02  1:10       ` Jason Stevens

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