From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rp@servium.ch (Rico Pajarola) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:27:40 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! [ really sun vs dec/apollo --> X and NeWS ] In-Reply-To: References: <201709121535.v8CFZOuB015695@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20170913022333.GD24549@mcvoy.com> <201709141111.v8EBBnXm021044@freefriends.org> Message-ID: On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/14/17 8:13 AM, Rico Pajarola wrote: > > > True, I'm amazed every time I try a really old version of some old GNU > > software like bash 1.0 on a contemporary (but unusual) OS. No errors, no > > warnings, nothing to fix-up manually. It just works. > > If you have a version of bash-1.0, send it my way. We weren't quite as > careful with preserving milestone software versions in those days. > it wasn't *exactly* 1.0 The oldest version I can find with by running "locate bash-1.0" on my datagrave is version 1.05. Do you keep an archive of old software somewhere? I spend a lot of time hunting down old versions of 90'ies era software, but it's becoming increasingly frustrating due to ftp services being turned down, especially at universities. > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~ > chet/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: