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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2176 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2022 07:52:42 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Dec 2022 07:52:42 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B0C423EB; Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:52:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 221F3423EA for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:52:30 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 2BN7qOHO014190 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:52:24 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 2BN7qNqg014188; Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:52:23 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202212230752.2BN7qNqg014188@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:52:23 -0700 To: tuhs@tuhs.org, phil@ultimate.com References: <20221223022652.AD41018C079@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <202212230432.2BN4WorG015346@ultimate.com> In-Reply-To: <202212230432.2BN4WorG015346@ultimate.com> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: LCMO5APHVDNRBCOX27QIQVV3AMKTN65K X-Message-ID-Hash: LCMO5APHVDNRBCOX27QIQVV3AMKTN65K X-MailFrom: arnold@skeeve.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early supported UNIX manual List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Hi. Phil Budne 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