From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, norman@oclsc.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] V8, V9 and V10 now in the "Unix Tree"
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 12:49:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202004111849.03BIn08J029073@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200411152403.5CB384422F@lignose.oclsc.org>
norman@oclsc.org (Norman Wilson) wrote:
> There was no general release of V8 like those for earlier
> Research systems, but there was a quasi-official V8 tape
> sent to a handful of universities under a special letter
> agreement. I remember working on that with Dennis,
> checking that everything compiled and worked properly
> in a chroot environment before the tape was written.
> I think that happened in the summer of 1985.
Sounds about right. Circa late '86 or early '87, IIRC correctly, DMR spoke
at Georgia Tech, and Gene Spafford, who was still there arranged to
get a copy of the V8 tape.
I got a friend who worked there to send me the man page sources
and printed a copy for myself. :-) I later got an official (but used)
copy via BWK.
(I also arranged to buy a V9 manual in the early 90s.)
Arnold
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-11 15:24 Norman Wilson
2020-04-11 18:49 ` arnold [this message]
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2020-04-12 9:30 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-12 10:00 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-12 9:26 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-11 15:38 Norman Wilson
2020-04-11 15:44 ` Larry McVoy
2020-04-11 18:52 ` arnold
2020-04-11 14:47 Doug McIlroy
2020-04-10 15:34 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-10 20:50 ` Rob Pike
2020-04-12 8:51 ` Paul Ruizendaal
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