[TUHS] Re: UNIX System V Release 2.2 gdts Vax-780

[steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>]

> On 16 Mar 2023, at 08:22, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there any market for System V at this point?  I would think it's 
> Windows, MacOS, Linux and anything else is an also ran at this point.

Is this the right question, treating System V as commercial?

"What “uses” would SysV codebase have now?" may be a better Q.

Minor commercial use, restricted to old hardware.

A platform for research and hobbyist non-commercial use.

And for the intellectually curious,
to document the evolution of the codebase through time.
[ for ‘completeness’ of the git repo ]

At best, academically it might enable a comparative code course
and some PhD’s.

I think it’d be quite some legacy to leave a complete tree
of the evolution of Unix, from the earliest versions,
out to the end.

But having corporates give up any “Intellectual Property”
isn’t likely. Not until a bunch of people have died :)

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