I’ve only cursorily heard of versions past v7. I personally be interested in hearing the history and seeing what changes/improvements/differences came in those versions. I’ve learned that the Unix history I thought I knew had huge gaping holes in it from this list and members. Joe Ossanna’s contributions, for example, were a complete revelation to me. Earl Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16, 2022, at 7:06 PM, Rob Pike wrote: > >  > Excited as I was to see this history of Unix code in a single repository: > > https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo > > it continues the long-standing tradition of ignoring all the work done at Bell Labs after v7. I consider v8 v9 v10 to be worth of attention, even influential, but to hear this list talk about it - or discussions just about anywhere else - you'd think they never existed. There are exceptions, but this site does reinforce the broadly known version of the story. > > It's doubly ironic for me because people often mistakenly credit me for working on Unix, but I landed at the Labs after v7 was long dispatched. At the Labs, I first worked on what became v8. > > I suppose it's because the history flowed as this site shows, with BSD being the driving force for a number of reasons, but it feels to me that a large piece of Unix history has been sidelined. > > I know it's a whiny lament, but those neglected systems had interesting advances. > > -rob >