From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:32:42 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX V 6.9999999 ? Message-ID: Ah that makes sense, I could totally see that happening.. Esp with the cost of hardware back then! It is insteresting reading about people haveing 600MB of storage back in 1981.. I can only imagine how much it'd have cost! Thanks again! Jason -----Original Message----- From: Dave Horsfall [mailto:dave@horsfall.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:36 PM To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX V 6.9999999 ? On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Jason Stevens wrote: > What is UNIX V 6.9999999?? I suspect it's v6 with a bunch of patches, > but not quite v7? I've seen from some Russian stuff that they prefered > v6 on pdp-11's as it "ran faster" than v7 and needed far less ram/disk > space... I know it's 30 years too late to ask them what it is but I > figure someone may have actually ran/used 6.9999999... Back in the V6 days, I was known as Mr Unix 6-and-a-half, because I'd spliced all sorts of V7 features into V6 - notably XON/XOFF, and there was no way that V7 would run on the 11/40, I rewrote the Calcommp and Versatec plotter drivers to use the block interface, and they went like a bat out of hell. Sigh... We had fun in those days. -- Dave _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs