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From: wlc@jctaylor.com (William Corcoran)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:49 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
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Along the same lines:  

As UNIX *transitioned from the relative safety of academia (V7) into the cold, cruel  corporate world (System V), was there a corresponding effort to maintain and protect the UNIX codebase into a unified master repository with SCCS, for example?  

Is there any chance of finding a publicly available UNIX archive that includes the corresponding SCCS data for UNIX---to the extent that SCCS deltas and PRS comments can be examined?   

Bill Corcoran 

(*) IMHO


On Mar 21, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> 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.

Cheers, Warren