From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD,HTML_MESSAGE, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 5a876860 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8707B9CB7E; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:37:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3B49CB79; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:37:17 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="KcIgRL1s"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 82F3F9CB79; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:37:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-oi1-f193.google.com (mail-oi1-f193.google.com [209.85.167.193]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8FDF99CB78 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:37:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-oi1-f193.google.com with SMTP id b18so1138052oie.2 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 02:37:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=4auFWEPNlo+tkUQiSkN+SZHFm3MAISlXr9BkqyUEsXM=; b=KcIgRL1s18nlHSIFJXKbnaD5B5PMk0fQAWEff8h8xjF3vBNrHg9gRFq2NvXK0KOWMu Xne4jgAtyhEAPWxMqC/auZscm4SnePvBuJ/bwv8QWql7LcYGvJYaMJVJZK81HjBBcI7u 8jgI6F+2v2oLoNC8xYtjHj2PckFTHuqkdCSrLlOCkzPG41/LCLVfFRFHPj64RioQrSKe 2STJ/2RgjMSJ2qO7oLoSVy7LfnnRe8nJ44/KF4SC33llzcgumZSii2s8yj2BnxFAi+KN UI8j8EEpfz6HjrAeWRRaaQJ0A4/WVuldRvJ42heETHbEJg8w68Ufbar5Qo6B3Qy0Tv0J 1vSQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=4auFWEPNlo+tkUQiSkN+SZHFm3MAISlXr9BkqyUEsXM=; b=R9EMDwYcfgOtHcuxzxZis9t8+7mDp04ksxpCQ+eKLfQdOLyg+ahoJAYTbmkshdJkJg 1+qZ/FNCqwRblzfggS+0SslcOFZqtIwGsGFOmAQMrWml/jQbxvysk8KfLws1AWdeTyGG synXlAnl9I/I4Twf8+nw0ER524GaV+ITsDhu2mAkWqxri+RtpzqbmUBOLrltkAtpfdhO bU7iore8vL8hof2O7vKAMGFp69PgsXdGgDBcS2ynxSTScM3g1ZT9ZOfRpcyM/8mv+nwl Utx09zUcK9bkF2f1/IG+0kpCnQqR+7zelw2o0vMOTG+8vt8q+KiKQoUYmQpyeo+Ww525 /5Hg== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXaFmV7L5vexZanT39H3Hj86bAe0janto5G0E1mbgSMSC204uny oXKuei2MO+oMf0O6siASnvxAX8YkazqDH979QIQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqw2zfOSo/3ZxQzswluwEMN4onBRA1hJlt4+gx2kM/ckx7sF06JU9CSZL8RHnrd/QirP8b1l5folR8GlhJkNs7g= X-Received: by 2002:aca:53c6:: with SMTP id h189mr1422919oib.11.1582281433671; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 02:37:13 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <202002171520.01HFKqKi026749@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> In-Reply-To: <202002171520.01HFKqKi026749@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> From: Ed Bradford Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 04:37:01 -0600 Message-ID: To: Doug McIlroy , tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000c9ec10059f139a3c" Subject: Re: [TUHS] man Macro Package and pdfmark X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --000000000000c9ec10059f139a3c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I also worked with LSX - a stripped down version of Unix that required no MMU. It worked on a PDP 11/03 and we delivered an LSX product to the telco's based on LSX. My faulty memory tells me Mike Lesk created LSX. Is that true? Did BTL/AT&T ever try to sell LSX to IBM for its 1981 intro of the IBM PC? Ed Bradford, BTL 1976-1983 Columbus and Whippany On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:22 AM Doug McIlroy wrote: > > > one of the things I wanted to do in my retirement was convert > > all the stuff that is in debian back from info to man(7) > > *all* the stuff? Please don't do that literally. The garrulity > quotient of info pages dwarfs even that of the most excessive > modern man pages. But I appplaud the intent to assure man > pages are complete. > > Doug > -- Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. Cicero --000000000000c9ec10059f139a3c Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I also worked with LSX - a stripped down version of Unix that = required no MMU. It worked on a PDP 11/03 and we delivered an LSX product t= o the telco's based on LSX. My faulty memory tells me Mike Lesk created= LSX. Is that true?

Did BTL/AT&T ever try to sell LSX to IBM for= its 1981 intro of the IBM PC?

Ed Bradford, BTL 1976-1983
Columbus = and Whippany

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:22 AM Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
<= /div>

> one of the things I wanted to do in my retirement was convert
> all the stuff that is in debian back from info to man(7)

*all* the stuff? Please don't do that literally. The garrulity
quotient of info pages dwarfs even that of the most excessive
modern man pages. But I appplaud the intent to assure man
pages are complete.

Doug


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Advice is judged by results, not by in= tentions.
=C2=A0 Cicero

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