From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id fe7ab3da for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5D1D99C043; Thu, 19 Sep 2019 03:33:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC69B9B8FD; Thu, 19 Sep 2019 03:33:26 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 77BF79B8FD; Thu, 19 Sep 2019 03:33:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B484F9B8F5 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2019 03:33:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: by sdaoden.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7EFD16054; Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:33:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:33:18 +0200 From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: Eric Allman Message-ID: <20190918173318.o9sxO%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <94341a28-723a-f177-f658-0c827b35591b@neophilic.com> References: <20190911181101.GF3143@mcvoy.com> <20190912034346.GJ2046@mcvoy.com> <1457a2d6-2f17-482d-e4f7-ace439d34ca8@neophilic.com> <8db2e89c-ce50-a453-e38a-ecdfe69a746c@e-bbes.com> <20190913211104.aMZXy%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20190913211751.GF2046@mcvoy.com> <20190913230312.XaeCQ%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20190914015517.GD12480@mcvoy.com> <20190916172300.cjlkf%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <94341a28-723a-f177-f658-0c827b35591b@neophilic.com> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Allman , TUHS main list User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.15-68-ge75b4fd9 OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [TUHS] SCCS X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Eric Allman wrote in <94341a28-723a-f177-f658-0c827b35591b@neophilic.com>: |On 2019-09-16 19:23 , Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> One thing he says, and which is an interesting part of this |> thread, is |>=20 |> The statement of Eric Allman that Tichy used SCCS version |> 1 i cannot believe, because Tichy's releases are from 1982, and |> SCCS version 4 was released as earyl as February 1977. SCCS |> version 3 used a binary history format, by the way. |>=20 |> That should have addressed Eric Allman, but the longer i use email |> in the public space the more i like that pub-like feeling. (And |> not going to add that it reminds me of my childhood, where i was |> a boy under elder seasoned men _also_.) | |I did not claim that Tichy used SCCS v1. It's worse than that. He only |read the IEEE paper, which pre-dated RCS --- so far as I know he never |even tried SCCS release 4 (current at the time Tichy published), which |fixed the obvious problem in the release 1 design as originally |published. Despite careful descriptions of the changes, he refused to |stop slandering SCCS. He was truly standing on toes, not shoulders. Thank you. I will forward your response to J=C3=B6rg. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)