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From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] UUCP mis-history?
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:10:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2Pa197zAwZwahDn4WRJPNUz8nUoKL9X1Rix-yaLLxKF4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703081443490.2854@aneurin.horsfall.org>

Lesk's version predates V7 as was pointed out.  Which I had forgotten in my
counting.
The V7 version (or traditional) is what they are referring here I believe
and indeed that spread as part of V7

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> http://www.thefullwiki.org/UUCP
>
> ``UUCP was originally written at AT&T Bell Laboratories, by Mike Lesk, and
>   early versions of UUCP are sometimes referred to as System V UUCP.''
>
> Err, it was V7, wasn't it?  That considerably predates SysV...
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-08  3:45 Dave Horsfall
2017-03-08 14:10 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2017-03-08 23:49 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-09 14:48   ` Arthur Krewat

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