From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:17:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <394bc27c-8dff-03e1-9e13-9536a4ba195f@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED5DE5D-B2FC-4018-B4A8-2639CDB2073E@jctaylor.com>
On 3/21/2018 6:18 PM, William Corcoran wrote:
> Given that the comments never made it into the compiled code, there
> was no space reason to omit comments. There must have been another
> reason.
I used to regularly compress sources of various distributions (not UNIX,
but inn, pine, elm, etc) that I compiled, just to save space.
And that was in the early 90's when I could buy a 1GB SCSI drive for
$1000. I can't imagine working off of the early hard drives...
ak
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-21 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 14:17 [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 16:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:28 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:33 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-21 17:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 19:49 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 19:37 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 2:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-21 17:39 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-03-21 17:52 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:56 ` Nemo
2018-03-21 18:01 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 18:04 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-21 19:56 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 20:04 ` [TUHS] comments ( was daemons exorcised ) Earl Baugh
2018-03-21 20:18 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:51 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 20:13 ` [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:28 ` [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems Warren Toomey
2018-03-21 20:48 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 22:18 ` William Corcoran
2018-03-21 23:02 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-22 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:17 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2018-03-21 23:50 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 0:55 ` Mike Markowski
2018-03-22 1:00 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22 0:31 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-22 0:58 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-22 1:27 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 1:59 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-22 14:46 ` Steve Simon
2018-03-22 15:22 ` ron minnich
2018-03-22 16:22 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-22 16:32 ` arnold
2018-03-22 20:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-22 16:33 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-03-23 1:31 ` Charles Anthony
2018-03-22 1:40 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-22 2:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-22 13:49 Doug McIlroy
2018-03-22 14:29 ` Nemo
2018-03-23 1:54 Doug McIlroy
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