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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 25139 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2023 18:04:01 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 1 Jul 2023 18:04:01 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D055A43277; Sun, 2 Jul 2023 04:03:55 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1688234636; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-owner:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=nXSwECQH9fMVm+2e5d/Fd/bW2cUoPJNrgogNNZEsTKM=; b=aOJqGaKljCYj51UI1WBNKEtiWwfax/Bd8Slulh9DjJRKT9pEq4LlQXz2cXRdK28Dq5P3fS vjHfox0/n0l+vVsaAdrSoHohAepzJfcaE06K8DrKl3S4KRtv02guFhHj/WVOdVcKXyspCX lWUNOI9igT1/JZyM+vvamWx6xD7NFfI= Received: from mail-4318.protonmail.ch (mail-4318.protonmail.ch [185.70.43.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3B66431CF for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2023 04:03:45 +1000 (AEST) Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:03:32 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1688234623; x=1688493823; bh=nXSwECQH9fMVm+2e5d/Fd/bW2cUoPJNrgogNNZEsTKM=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=NZtlu3I7PHdhFO7zqBk1g0Nrg7aPP/GK80Cw57dyx29jjQkVYJmL/6VMQAILcGiXq d0aeB8KfpzCkCocC188O2leOmnByEU+BjNE6BSK/nzwS0gE18HPO7rqtg/XlZ2SIea egIOMxtI38WylekI9gkY8p79uAcJCNKMBnwaf3C8OOo1iCbfdf7HILH/4JppVyg0k7 17q1A5vt06e76fqS9S92PSNrHPwwosa8mOF3O5KrVEWt/FrHsnKqpaXjo+xmgv3Khk Y4pn06iaSZazqlYfFqhuvWSwHKnAMRWBeNZyIYT3oL5KEAmT5Otsw1FavlcgZMzNgJ Dy9G37Q4MzYVA== To: Dan Cross Message-ID: <9Lm966Be4OkPcrr0D_46OoESAtnWwi7DYjtwvIwKJsB81QIwMmSKIzz5F_JyalhwOXAMP2vdJQwpKuq4jGJryXOcKBAQY7S-r24_Aagb8ss=@protonmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <202306290714.35T7E4Qv016653@freefriends.org> Feedback-ID: 35591162:user:proton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: KYBVHRUYJK3RKHJBOAJGFWHPWVJCFY7T X-Message-ID-Hash: KYBVHRUYJK3RKHJBOAJGFWHPWVJCFY7T X-MailFrom: segaloco@protonmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Bell Labs CSTRs List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: segaloco via TUHS Reply-To: segaloco > Anyway, once you've got M3 and M4, you've got a naming convention; I'd > think it a safe bet that there was an M5 that was an internal > experiment, and that M6 was simply the next in line and was > interesting enough to be documented in a tech report. Only problem there is m6 predates m3 and m4. Th m6(I) page first appears i= n V2 and there is a published reference from 1972. Software Tools, from wh= ich m3 derives, was 1976, and m4 was then introduced in V7 (which is also t= he first research version since V2 without m6 somewhere in the manual.) Here's a rough history of the m6 manpage: https://gitlab.com/segaloco/mandi= ff/-/commits/v6/man6/m6.6 - Matt G.