From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:10:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PiMZRyHijt+mdpbUUkEgF3gzqAy74jqznDoh=PsiubvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201807100554.w6A5s0VM005631@freefriends.org>
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Right (and I agree) -- widespread usage/really being noticed.
And that was because it came in the Summit releases not the Research/UCB
stream, which did not help either.
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 1:54 AM, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
> > BY the time dmr adds stdio, it was
> > still early enough in the life to displace the randomness for something
> as
> > important as I/O, whereas lack of use of something.like getopt would not
> > become clearly deficient until after widespread success.
>
> I think "widespread access" is more like it for getopt. Getopt dates
> to 1980; it was in System III (I just checked). That's only about two years
> after V7 which was circa 1978.
>
> Here are the dates:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 1073 Apr 11 1980 usr/src/lib/libc/pdp11/gen/
> getopt.c
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2273 May 16 1980 usr/src/man/man3/getopt.3c
>
> But the world outside the Bell System didn't have System III. Getopt
> didn't become "popular" until System V or so, and became much easier to
> adopt once Henry Spencer published his public domain rewrite of the code
> and man page.
>
> Just a nit, (:-)
>
> Arnold
>
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-29 7:53 Warren Toomey
2018-06-29 10:53 ` ches@Cheswick.com
2018-06-29 12:51 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30 0:50 ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-30 11:44 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-30 22:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-30 23:29 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 4:17 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-01 11:42 ` ron
2018-07-01 5:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-07-01 8:28 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 11:34 ` ron
2018-07-09 16:30 ` Random832
2018-07-09 17:13 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-10 5:54 ` arnold
2018-07-10 6:09 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-10 7:19 ` arnold
2018-07-11 0:20 ` Noel Hunt
2018-07-11 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11 1:37 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-11 1:37 ` ron minnich
2018-07-11 3:12 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11 3:34 ` [TUHS] getopt (was " Bakul Shah
2018-07-13 9:08 ` [TUHS] " ches@Cheswick.com
2018-07-13 14:10 ` ron
2018-07-10 14:10 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2018-07-03 17:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 23:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-30 0:06 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-30 14:20 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30 1:31 Larry McVoy
2018-06-30 1:45 ` Jon Forrest
2018-06-30 18:43 ` Steve Johnson
2018-07-01 16:35 Norman Wilson
2018-07-02 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-07-03 7:27 arnold
2018-07-18 9:42 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
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