From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
Cc: falcon@freecalypso.org, gardnerjohng@gmail.com, groff@gnu.org,
tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:48:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2NinDqE6y9Cqh5zwDmsw0QT5hAu1s1up-8d=ECoockR=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xonwms8ht6d.fsf@anduin.eldar.org>
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Larry wrote it for admin help of his 4.1 BSD vaxen at NASA. (Which was
PCC based compiler K&R1 syntax). I do not remember if any one tried to
get it running on the 11 because of address space issues. As Brad says you
can check all usenet files.
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org> wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> > (Which isn't to say that one _can't_ write safe code using K&R C; my
> > fear is that having to remember all of the things the compiler won't do
> > for you would overwhelm the task at hand. Too bad Unix V7 didn't have
> > Perl, since this is basically a text transformation problem.)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Branden
>
>
> I may be very much misremembering this, but I think that Perl 3 might
> exist for V7. I have very vague memories of bring up V7 in SimH and
> noted that a perl binary existed there.... but it might have been 2.x
> BSD...(this is actually the most likely) or something else in SimH. All
> of the history says Perl 1 was created in late 1987, so V7 certainly
> would have been around and I wouldn't be suprised that someone attempted
> to port it. I could not find which OS Perl was an initial target for
> and I didn't want to grovel though the old Usenet posts.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
>
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2024-01-05 22:17 [TUHS] Original print of V7 manual? Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-05 23:19 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-06 0:12 ` Will Senn
2024-01-06 1:26 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 5:08 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-06 6:12 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 15:06 ` Will Senn
2024-01-06 1:06 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-06 1:45 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-06 14:42 ` amp1ron
2024-01-06 3:02 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 3:22 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-06 4:06 ` Jonathan Gray
2024-01-06 4:06 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 18:33 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-06 21:04 ` Rich Salz
2024-01-06 21:38 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-10 16:32 ` Michael Parson
2024-02-10 19:43 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-07 2:17 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-07 2:25 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-07 2:54 ` Phil Budne
2024-01-07 3:21 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-07 3:55 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-10 16:53 ` Michael Parson
2024-01-10 17:45 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-07 10:54 ` Brian Walden
2024-01-07 12:12 ` arnold
2024-01-08 0:20 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-07 21:59 ` [TUHS] My own version of troff Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-08 3:24 ` [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual? / " G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-08 5:10 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-08 7:11 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-09 9:38 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-09 16:27 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-09 17:18 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-09 18:05 ` Phil Budne
2024-01-09 18:30 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2024-01-09 20:29 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-09 20:31 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-09 22:07 ` Clem Cole
[not found] ` <CAGcdajdc5GfTOeP_Vw_AC0E6BdnrBLape1+GEd2JGDCg4n31eQ@mail.gmail.com>
2024-01-17 14:08 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-17 15:32 ` Brad Spencer
2024-01-17 15:48 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2024-01-17 16:25 ` Rich Salz
2024-01-18 7:00 ` Mychaela Falconia
[not found] ` <CAGcdaje=RHbLNZv2Cy=xtuEMaYU7RXMtnom7gYuAMMju2xrHgw@mail.gmail.com>
2024-01-18 8:22 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-18 13:27 ` G. Branden Robinson
[not found] ` <ZalHs6DAuvRwXTuS@fluorine>
2024-01-19 16:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-06 14:52 ` [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual? Will Senn
2024-01-06 16:52 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-06 16:54 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-06 18:28 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-10 18:50 [TUHS] Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff tuhs
2024-01-10 22:04 ` [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2024-01-10 23:46 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-11 2:20 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-11 13:52 ` Sebastien F4GRX
2024-01-11 22:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-01-11 23:47 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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