From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 32064 invoked from network); 15 May 2022 13:38:15 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 15 May 2022 13:38:15 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C62429D3C1; Sun, 15 May 2022 23:38:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542EF93D68; Sun, 15 May 2022 23:37:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E3C9293D68; Sun, 15 May 2022 23:37:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 358E093D44 for ; Sun, 15 May 2022 23:37:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id E4C7435E823; Sun, 15 May 2022 06:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 06:37:04 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Adam Thornton Message-ID: <20220515133704.GT31822@mcvoy.com> References: <20220511173518.GF17911@mcvoy.com> <20220515004818.GL31822@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] First Unix-like OSes not derived from AT&T code? 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" On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:36:41PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote: > > > > On May 14, 2022, at 5:48 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 07:46:33PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On May 11, 2022, at 10:35 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: > >>> As a side effort from making SunOS POSIX compliant, > >> > >> As good a time as any to thank you for this. Pity you couldn't convince them to put the POSIX sh in /bin/sh and the old sh in /usr/compat or some such, rather than having POSIX only in /usr/xpg4. > > > > I was pretty green, it was my 3rd job after grad school. I didn't have > > pull at the time, I was a nobody who had to prove himself. > > What are you talking about? That wasn't a long time ago. It was only... > > ... > > ...aw crap. Amen to that. I turned 60 this year and man, oh, man, that sucked. I've mostly been fine with getting older but 60? Are you kidding me? I'm 60? That's the first time a birthday made me feel closer to death. Yuck.