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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE 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 4bd8f2ca for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2019 05:56:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 70C649BC0C; Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:56:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D55994803; Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:56:05 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1569909380; bh=w4D0RiGta1rSeTDmhJj1l0thWgVMPQfSZOZPDR3KKgE=; h=Date:From:To:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:List-Id: List-Unsubscribe:List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe: Cc:From; b=TER38f3zk5Zl7WPIf099ruirZbUp7NUUGj/W5/89rv6A3tpKMRwtlaH5Dqzbq1q0y AHDqDNkSkBIiCTFkbmBgoFf30qSBwmmQba2a4BxH++SbKRunykizjThq5jFPIXNFW/ +aY1l7GB5OdOo0vN+3b631io6iU8zoloYMhZgJvM= Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2B219947D6; Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:56:03 +1000 (AEST) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:56:03 +1000 From: Warren Toomey To: Warner Losh Message-ID: <20191001055603.GA28677@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <7D53B9FD-7368-420F-979D-06F841A1D5D6@ccc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Leaked patches... v6 to v6.5 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: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:00:44PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > Wikipedia :). It comes from our friend Warren: > Toomey, Warren (December 2011). [2]"The Strange Birth and Long Life of > Unix". [3]IEEE Spectrum. [4]IEEE. Retrieved December 15, 2012. > Maybe he can say... Actually it comes from Salus' "A Quarter Century of Unix", pg. 139: Lou Katz’s version is a bit different: A large number of bug fixes was collected, and rather than issue them one at a time, a collection tape (”The 50 fixes”) was put together by Ken. Some of the fixes were quite important, though I don't remember any in particular. I suspect that a significant fraction of the fixes were actually done by non-Bell people. Ken tried to send it out, but the lawyers kept stalling and stalling and stalling. Finally, in complete disgust, someone "found a tape on Mountain Avenue” which had the fixes. [The address of Bell Labs is 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ.] When the lawyers found out about it, they called every licensee and threatened them with dire consequences if they didn’t destroy the tape, after trying to find out how they got the tape. I would guess that no one would actually tell them how they came by the tape (I didn’t). It was the first of many attempts by the lawyers to justify their existence and to kill Unix. Cheers, Warren P.S In 2002 I wrote on the list: The mythical `50 bugs' tape, described in Peter Salus' book `A Quarter Century of UNIX' has been found lurking in the Unix Archive. You can find it in Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz as the file usr/sys/v6unix/unix_changes.