From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
Subject: [TUHS] 2018: eighteen months to the Unix 50th anniversary
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:53:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c313c07-9a36-b6f9-2e90-5992c60d263a@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180110105758.GA2099@minnie.tuhs.org>
On 01/10/2018 03:57 AM, Warren Toomey wrote:
>> If not maintaining itself, right on the verge of maintaining itself,
>> to totally sever the GECOS connection.
>
> So, while we don't have an exact date, it's reasonable to assume that,
> sometime around July 1969, Unix was at a point where it was self-hosting.
Somehow I was not aware that Unix was ever dependent on another OS.
I get the impression that GECOS was more integral with early Unix than I
had ever imagined. It sounds like more than just the GECOS field in
/etc/passwd for associating Unix accounts with GECOS accounts on other
machines.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 0:30 Warren Toomey
2018-01-09 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09 2:16 ` Noel Hunt
2018-01-09 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09 7:30 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-09 18:09 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10 3:34 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10 4:11 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10 5:23 ` George Michaelson
2018-01-10 6:25 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-10 6:53 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10 10:57 ` Warren Toomey
2018-01-10 16:53 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2018-01-10 13:23 ` Andy Kosela
2018-01-10 23:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-11 0:06 ` George Michaelson
2018-01-11 22:08 ` Robert Brockway
2018-01-11 1:22 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-11 21:45 ` Clem Cole
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