From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: aps@ieee.org (Armando Stettner) Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 11:43:10 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Oldest Unix source code still in modern systems In-Reply-To: References: <20120521051801.GA2210@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <9F28D643-765D-4A49-B6B5-61A293DA936F@ieee.org> I would have suspected the oldest source code still existing in systems would be along the lines /* * you are not expected to understand this. */ :) aps Sent from my iPad On May 21, 2012, at 11:00 AM, "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2012, Warren Toomey wrote: > >> I was doing a trawl of related Unix source trees, and found that some early >> C code from around 2nd Edition Unix is still in OpenSolaris today: >> >> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2/cmd/if.c >> >> Choose: Compare this file to OpenSolaris_b135/cmd/fmli/sys/test.c >> and then click on the Side Scroll or the Printable button. >> >> There's about 15 lines of code in common between the 2 files. > > Cool. I recently did the same thing for BSD. > http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2012/05/Features181.html > Some examples of code that is mostly the same since the first Berkeley > distribution are: colcrt, expand, mkstr, and soelim. But a few others > still have some of the original ~1976-1977 code. > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >