From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Were cron and at done at the same time? Or one before the other?
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 11:05:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201208190539.GA3303@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c22ff9c1-63c0-bd85-da8e-0df4cd99ff6a@mhorton.net>
Doesn't it stand to reason that cron would come first, isn't at implemented
with an entry in a crontab?
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:51:05AM -0800, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> My V6 manual has cron(VIII) - documentation of /usr/lib/crontab - but no
> mention of at.
>
> This is consistent with my recollection - I first saw at in V7.
>
> ?????? Mary Ann
>
> On 12/8/20 10:11 AM, ron minnich wrote:
> >When I got into Unix in 1976 cron and at were both there.
> >
> >I got to wondering for no particular reason which came first -- I had
> >always assumed cron, but ...?
> >
> >Anyone know?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-08 18:11 ron minnich
2020-12-08 18:51 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-12-08 19:05 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-12-08 19:20 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-12-09 2:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-08 19:39 ` Clem Cole
2020-12-09 4:35 M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-09 15:40 ` Clem Cole
2020-12-09 15:46 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-09 16:01 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-09 16:11 ` Clem Cole
2020-12-09 17:05 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-09 17:42 ` Dan Stromberg
2020-12-09 23:46 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-12-14 20:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-14 22:23 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-12-14 23:04 ` Andrew Hume
2020-12-14 23:59 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-12-17 4:08 ` John Cowan
2020-12-15 2:57 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-15 3:05 ` Warner Losh
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2020-12-09 16:04 ` John Foust
2020-12-09 16:40 ` Warner Losh
2020-12-09 16:53 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-09 16:58 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-12-09 19:58 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-09 20:30 ` Will Senn
2020-12-13 1:07 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-12-13 1:56 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-13 2:58 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-12-13 3:07 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-13 16:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-12-13 3:02 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-09 23:22 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-09 23:44 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-09 23:51 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-12 2:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-12 19:10 ` scj
2020-12-09 19:25 Noel Chiappa
2020-12-13 2:02 Noel Chiappa
2020-12-13 2:08 ` Clem Cole
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