From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] PWB contributions
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:39:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201511090139.tA91dCvK006536@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
>> I thought PWB (makers of "make") came from Harvard?
> PWB ... came straight out of Bell. Not sure about all the
> applications (well, SCCS came from Bell).
PWB did not create make; Stu Feldman did it in research.
PWB did make SCCS. I believe it also originated cico,
find and eval. Probably more, too, but I can't reliably
separate PWB's other contributions from USG's.
Doug
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2015-11-09 1:39 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2015-11-09 1:48 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09 2:12 ` Clement T. Cole
2015-11-09 2:54 ` Win Treese
2015-11-09 2:58 ` Win Treese
2015-11-09 3:36 ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 3:51 ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 15:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-11-09 15:54 ` Clem Cole
2015-11-09 22:12 ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-11-09 3:38 ` Random832
2015-11-09 4:50 ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 13:58 ` Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09 14:02 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-11-09 14:44 ` John Cowan
2015-11-10 20:26 ` [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) (was: PWB contributions) markus schnalke
2015-11-10 22:10 ` Clem Cole
2015-11-10 23:10 ` Andy Kosela
2015-11-10 23:12 ` John Cowan
2015-11-10 23:34 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-10 23:39 ` John Cowan
2015-11-11 0:16 ` [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) Random832
2015-11-11 12:23 ` markus schnalke
2015-11-09 22:23 ` [TUHS] PWB contributions Jeremy C. Reed
2015-11-10 4:11 ` Random832
2015-11-09 4:44 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09 4:51 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09 5:07 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09 5:09 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09 5:16 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09 5:16 ` Leonardo Taccari
2015-11-09 2:14 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09 2:32 ` John Cowan
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