From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>,
Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix quix
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 09:49:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2Mgm+eMPXi-3b=kLaspohxOr5ivBU63sgt42_0PAF5LOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo_fKeKttr2_hU+=6FNcKU0E9RwsG6trWt2666T5MstLA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 9:45 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> MERT absolutely predates PWB 1.2. MERT has papers starting in 1975 while
> pwb 1.2 is 1978 or 1979.
>
I can not say, I have any knowledge so I would trust Rob's sources, but ...
I also what I would have thought MERT predates PWB. Heinz, are you able to
illuminate any of these details?
> MERT was V4 while releases of PWB were V6 based.
>
I can verify and agree with the later of PWB 1.x being 6th edition, but the
MERT tidbit is interesting/thought-provoking. I frankly would have
expected the MERT folks to have started with something closer to 5th and
then tracked any significant differences as possible.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-24 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-22 20:49 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-22 23:06 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-23 15:56 ` Leah Neukirchen
2020-01-24 2:44 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-24 14:49 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2020-01-24 16:34 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-26 0:03 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-24 16:40 ` Warner Losh
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2020-01-24 19:38 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-01-24 20:05 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-22 18:42 Noel Chiappa
2020-01-24 18:57 ` Paul Winalski
2020-01-30 4:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-30 6:32 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-01-20 20:28 Rob Pike
2020-01-20 21:06 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-22 9:31 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-22 14:57 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-22 17:54 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 18:01 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2020-01-22 18:21 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 19:42 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 20:42 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 23:10 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-22 23:34 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 23:42 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 19:00 ` Warner Losh
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