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From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SCCS
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:25:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201909120425.x8C4P4e2009186@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)

George Michaelson writes:
> What Larry and the other RCS haters forget is that back in the day,
> when we all had more hair, RCS was --->FAST<--- and SCCS was S.L.O.W.
>
> because running forward edits on a base state of 1000 edits is slow.
> Since the majority action is increment +1 on the head state the RCS
> model, whilst broken in many ways
> was FAST
>
> -G

And also that RCS had a much friendlier interface.

             reply	other threads:[~2019-09-12  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-12  4:25 Jon Steinhart [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-13 21:37 Norman Wilson
2019-09-13 21:51 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-09  6:25 [TUHS] PWB vs Unix/TS Warner Losh
2019-09-10 15:16 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11  3:53   ` Warner Losh
2019-09-11 15:36     ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 18:11       ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-11 22:49         ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12  3:43           ` [TUHS] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12  4:20             ` George Michaelson
2019-09-12  4:28             ` Jon Forrest
2019-09-12  4:33               ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-12  6:12                 ` William Corcoran
2019-09-12 14:35                   ` Clem Cole
2019-09-13  5:22                 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-13  5:50                   ` Bakul Shah
2019-09-12 16:45               ` Eric Allman
2019-09-12 17:29                 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-12 17:47                   ` Warner Losh
2019-09-13  8:12                   ` emanuel stiebler
2019-09-13 21:11                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 21:17                       ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 21:48                         ` Bakul Shah
2019-09-13 23:12                           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 23:03                         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-14  1:55                           ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 17:23                             ` [TUHS] SCCS Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-16 20:31                               ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-17 17:57                                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-18  8:48                               ` Eric Allman
2019-09-18 17:33                                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-12 20:07             ` Nemo

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