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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: random832@fastmail.com, clemc@ccc.com
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 23:54:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201807100554.w6A5s0VM005631@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PCXWbeGCOSbVVs=w-Qi_aMr8d9X8b0zYs8Skmy=yPTeQ@mail.gmail.com>

Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

> BY the time dmr adds stdio, it was
> still early enough in the life to displace the randomness for something as
> important as I/O, whereas lack of use of something.like getopt would not
> become clearly deficient until after widespread success.

I think "widespread access" is more like it for getopt.  Getopt dates
to 1980; it was in System III (I just checked). That's only about two years
after V7 which was circa 1978.

Here are the dates:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 1073 Apr 11  1980 usr/src/lib/libc/pdp11/gen/getopt.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2273 May 16  1980 usr/src/man/man3/getopt.3c

But the world outside the Bell System didn't have System III. Getopt
didn't become "popular" until System V or so, and became much easier to
adopt once Henry Spencer published his public domain rewrite of the code
and man page.

Just a nit, (:-)

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-10  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-29  7:53 Warren Toomey
2018-06-29 10:53 ` ches@Cheswick.com
2018-06-29 12:51   ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30  0:50   ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-30 11:44     ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-30 22:42       ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-30 23:29         ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01  4:17           ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-01 11:42           ` ron
2018-07-01  5:29       ` Dave Horsfall
2018-07-01  8:28         ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 11:34         ` ron
2018-07-09 16:30           ` Random832
2018-07-09 17:13             ` Clem Cole
2018-07-10  5:54               ` arnold [this message]
2018-07-10  6:09                 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-10  7:19                   ` arnold
2018-07-11  0:20                     ` Noel Hunt
2018-07-11  1:31                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11  1:37                         ` George Michaelson
2018-07-11  1:37                         ` ron minnich
2018-07-11  3:12                           ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11  3:34                         ` [TUHS] getopt (was " Bakul Shah
2018-07-13  9:08                       ` [TUHS] " ches@Cheswick.com
2018-07-13 14:10                         ` ron
2018-07-10 14:10                 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-03 17:34       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 23:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-30  0:06   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-30 14:20   ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30  1:31 Larry McVoy
2018-06-30  1:45 ` Jon Forrest
2018-06-30 18:43   ` Steve Johnson
2018-07-01 16:35 Norman Wilson
2018-07-02 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-07-03  7:27 arnold
2018-07-18  9:42 Hendrik Jan Thomassen

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