From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik@ono-sendai.com (Erik Berls) Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 16:09:09 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture In-Reply-To: <20170510143813.YrQ5R%steffen@sdaoden.eu> References: <583620cb-6856-b9ee-a5ee-32885c09362b@aueb.gr> <20170510143813.YrQ5R%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Message-ID: groff came into NetBSD (of which, FreeBSD 1.0 incorporated a pre-release NetBSD 0.8 tarball), with the 386bsd + patchkit initial import.  Sun Mar 21 09:45:37 1993 UTC, by cgd.  It was upgraded to groff release 1.08 about 4 months later, by jtc. Source: NetBSD’s cvsweb -----Original Message----- From: Steffen Nurpmeso Reply: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org Date: May 10, 2017 at 2:16:16 PM To: Diomidis Spinellis Cc: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org Subject:  Re: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture > Yes, hi, > > Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > |I've made available on GitHub a series of tables showing the evolution > |of Unix facilities (as documented in the man pages) over the system's > |lifetime [1] and two diagrams where I attempted to draw the > |corresponding architecture [2]. I've also documented the process in a > |short blog post [3]. I'd welcome any suggestions for corrections and > |improvements you may have, particularly for the architecture diagrams. > | > |[1] https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-history-man/ > > i am confident groff was part of (Free)BSD even before it was > released. That is, i have used groff with FreeBSD 4.9 (?) base > systems onwards, and i know from the CSRG history that they worked > to get there. (It is not part of the repo, though, it is only > deduced. I still don't have the McKusick CD's, shame on me.) > > |[2] https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-architecture/ > |[3] https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20170510/ > > --steffen > | > |Ralph says i must not use signatures which spread the light! > -- Erik Berls