From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:05:55 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 4:52 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip] I still think it's a great piece of code, and I miss the v8 shell
> every day. [snip]
> Unfortunately, Steve's memory allocation trick, mallocking on faults,
> isn't portable, and I suspect the code will never run on a modern OS. Tom
> Duff's rc was done as a reaction to the shell being, despite its other
> glories, still a macro language. But that's another story.
>
Geoff Collyer wrote a nice paper about experiences porting the 9th Edition
shell to SunOS 3 on the 68k some years ago.
http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/sh.tour.pdf
There is a copy of source code on his personal web page:
http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/
I wonder if any of the 8th edition shell changes you mentioned survived in
that code?
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-07 22:25 Warren Toomey
2020-02-07 23:57 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 0:43 ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-08 3:37 ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 15:15 ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 21:50 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 22:29 ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 22:54 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:02 ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:11 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:13 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:21 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-08 23:26 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:28 ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:26 ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:29 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:35 ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 23:36 ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:54 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-09 0:11 ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-09 0:19 ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-08 22:31 ` Richard Salz
2020-02-10 13:18 ` Tony Finch
2020-02-10 15:05 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2020-02-10 15:46 ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] arnold
2020-02-10 18:39 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-10 18:59 ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-10 19:58 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-02-10 20:11 ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-11 9:33 ` arnold
2020-02-11 9:47 ` Noel Hunt
2020-02-11 9:47 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 9:59 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:05 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-11 17:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-11 18:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-16 21:34 ` Wesley Parish
2020-02-11 18:26 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-11 23:56 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-12 0:12 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-12 1:03 ` [TUHS] V9 shell Warren Toomey
2020-02-12 5:54 ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:36 ` Dan Cross
2020-02-11 18:35 ` Christopher Browne
2020-02-11 18:54 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 21:36 ` Harald Arnesen
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