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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] System III - TCP/IP
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 02:22:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151108072230.GA8436@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151108071102.GA7290@mcvoy.com>

Larry McVoy scripsit:

> he and I talked a bit about that - which was classic
> Dennis because I was nobody, fresh out of grad school porting a STREAMS
> based TCP/IP stack and I felt it was weird so I reached out to dmr and
> he of course replied in depth.)

Bohr and Feynman at Los Alamos, to put it Star Trek-ly.

> I think there were some cool parts, didn't the PWB and DWB
> come form System III?  

Vice versa.  PWB began between the Sixth and Seventh Edition, but didn't
reach the Unix mainline (as it was then) until System III.  There was a
second PWB release branched from the Seventh Edition.

> Other than that, what's the System III attraction?

I tend to agree: a thoroughly vanilla release.


-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
I could dance with you till the cows come home.  On second thought,
I'd rather dance with the cows when you come home.
        --Rufus T. Firefly



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-08  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-07 19:03 Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-07 19:20 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-07 20:27   ` Cory Smelosky
2015-11-08  7:11     ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-08  7:22       ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-11-08  8:20         ` Cory Smelosky
2015-11-08 14:45       ` Dave Horsfall
2015-11-08 17:04         ` Steve Nickolas
2015-11-09  4:34         ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-07 21:28   ` Clem Cole
2015-11-07 22:07     ` Cory Smelosky
2015-11-07 22:13     ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-08  5:10       ` Derek Fawcus
2015-11-08  5:39         ` Nick Downing
2015-11-08  9:40           ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-08 13:38           ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-09  0:21             ` Nick Downing
2015-11-09  8:15               ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-09  8:16                 ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-09  9:40                   ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-09  9:40                     ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-09 22:36                       ` Nick Downing
2015-11-09  0:31             ` Nick Downing
2015-11-11  1:54 ` Cornelius Keck
2015-11-11  6:46   ` Oliver Lehmann
2015-11-08 15:52 Noel Chiappa

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