From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Original Unix SOSP paper?
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:03:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201809291203.w8TC3u0O057718@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
Warren wrote:
> I would like to do some work on how the content changed over time.
> The result would be, for me, an interesting paper to read but somehow
> I think the readership base would be limited :-)
"Critical editions", as they are known in literary circles,
garner wide respect if not wide readership. Go for it.
Incidentally the earliest diff programs I know about date
from about 1969. One was by Steve Johnson, specifically
for comparing comdecks--compressed assembler source. The
other arose in service of critical editions.
Doug
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2018-09-29 12:03 Doug McIlroy [this message]
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2018-09-28 23:04 Warren Toomey
2018-09-28 23:20 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-09-28 23:55 ` Warren Toomey
2018-09-29 0:15 ` Charles H. Sauer
2018-09-29 0:48 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-29 1:44 ` Warner Losh
2018-09-29 10:11 ` Warren Toomey
2018-09-29 10:32 ` William Corcoran
2018-09-28 23:24 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-09-28 23:24 ` Warren Toomey
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