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From: "A. P. Garcia" <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix [really RMS bashing]
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 21:59:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCBnZt-8i79HOKka1y4oNy70v83e3=9LfjJcLAS+BY0VfJ5Fw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrsrv0ATMssJC7dS=sx8tfggMHHvvSH9L1RJFeFG8TQFQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 9:39 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 7:06 PM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2019, A. P. Garcia wrote:
>>
>> If not for GNU, Unix would still have been cloned.  Net/2 happened in
>> parallel, did it not?
>>
>
> Berkeley actively rewrote most of unix yes. Net/1 was released about the
> same time GNU was getting started. Net/2 and later 4.4 BSD continued this
> trend, where 4.4 was finally a complete system. BSD386 only lagged Linux by
> about a year and had much stronger networking support, but supported fewer
> obscure devices than linux...
>
> Warner
>
> Ps I know this glosses over a lot, and isn't intended to be pedantic as to
> who got where first. Only they were about the same time... and I'm
> especially glossing over the AT&T suits, etc.
>

It's really hard to say. How would you compile it? Clang didn't come along
until 2007. The Amsterdam Compiler Kit, perhaps?

>

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-07  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-06 23:41 Jon Steinhart
2019-01-07  1:29 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-07  1:59   ` Steve Nickolas
2019-01-07  2:39     ` Warner Losh
2019-01-07  2:59       ` A. P. Garcia [this message]
2019-01-07  3:32         ` Warner Losh
2019-01-07  5:05         ` Toby Thain
2019-01-07  5:36         ` Andy Kosela
2019-01-07  1:38 ` Toby Thain
2019-01-07  2:11   ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-07  2:31     ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-07  0:49 Larry McVoy

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