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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, phil@ultimate.com
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early supported UNIX manual
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:52:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202212230752.2BN7qNqg014188@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202212230432.2BN4WorG015346@ultimate.com>

Hi.

Phil Budne <phil@ultimate.com> wrote:

> > you'll see that PWB1 accumulates the arguments in a chunk of swap space.
> > V6 _does_ use a disk buffer for this:
> >
> >   https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/sys/ken/sys1.c
> >
> > So this is for V6.
>
> 1. My document is the programmers manual, with sections 1-8 (I through
> VIII).

This fact alone indicates that the code predates V7; through V6 the
manual sections used Roman numerals. From V7 on they used Arabic
numerals.

FWIW,

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-23  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-23  2:26 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-23  4:32 ` Phil Budne
2022-12-23  7:52   ` arnold [this message]
2022-12-23  9:09   ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-23 18:04     ` Phil Budne
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-22 18:52 [TUHS] " Phil Budne
2022-12-22 19:51 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-22 21:44   ` Phil Budne
2022-12-22 21:55     ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-24  3:30     ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-24  8:58       ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-24 10:30         ` Jonathan Gray
2024-01-07  7:03 ` Jonathan Gray
2024-01-07 10:38   ` Al Kossow
2024-01-07 15:27     ` Phil Budne
2024-01-07 17:21       ` segaloco via TUHS

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