From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: forgotten versions
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:00:19 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 5:35 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > I can think of at least 4 things, some big, some small, where post-V7
> > Research Unix was influential
>
> Besides streams, file system switch, /proc, and /dev/fd. v8 had the
> Blit. Though Rob's relevant patent evoked disgruntled rumblings from
> MIT that window systems were old hat, the Blit pioneered multiple
> windows as we know them today. On the contemporary Lisp Machine, for
> example, active computation happened in only one window at a time.
>
> V8 also had Peter Weinberger's Remote File System. Unlike NFS, RFS
> mapped UIDS, thus allowing files to be shared among computers in
> different jurisdictions with different UID lists. Unfortunately, RFS
> went the way of Reiser paging.
>
I believe RFS shipped in SVR3, at least as a package for the 3b2.
> And then there was Norman Wilson, who polished the kernel and
> administrative tools. All kinds of things became smaller and
> cleaner--an inimitable accomplishment
>
> > No clue what was new in V10
>
> This suggests I should put on my to-do list an update of the Research
> Unix Reader's combined table of man-page contents, which covers only
> v1-v9. I think it's fair to say, though, that nothing introduced in
> v10 was as influential as the features mentioned above.
>
> Doug
>
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-18 0:35 Douglas McIlroy
2022-06-18 5:00 ` Kevin Bowling [this message]
2022-06-18 5:13 ` Adam Thornton
2022-06-18 16:58 ` Clem Cole
2022-06-18 17:18 ` Warner Losh
2022-06-18 17:57 ` Clem Cole
2022-06-19 20:46 ` [TUHS] RFS (was Re: Re: forgotten versions) Derek Fawcus
2022-06-19 23:07 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-06-19 23:19 ` Brad Spencer
2022-06-20 5:03 ` Arno Griffioen via TUHS
2022-06-20 6:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
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2022-06-24 6:47 [TUHS] Re: forgotten versions Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-25 19:16 ` Anthony Martin
2022-06-25 20:45 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-27 0:57 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-06-23 2:18 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-22 12:06 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-23 0:02 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-18 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-17 14:50 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-16 23:06 [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2022-06-16 23:17 ` [TUHS] " Earl Baugh
2022-06-16 23:18 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-16 23:44 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-17 0:10 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-17 7:20 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2022-06-17 7:33 ` Rob Pike
2022-06-17 8:34 ` arnold
2022-06-17 10:52 ` arnold
2022-06-18 7:05 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19 7:50 ` Rob Pike
2022-06-19 8:17 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19 8:53 ` Rob Pike
2022-06-19 9:02 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19 9:14 ` arnold
2022-06-19 9:19 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19 9:23 ` arnold
2022-06-19 11:37 ` Matthias Bruestle
2022-06-19 14:47 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-06-19 16:27 ` Al Kossow
2022-06-19 18:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-06-19 18:38 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-21 23:56 ` Jacob Moody
2022-06-22 0:13 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-22 0:48 ` Rob Pike
2022-06-22 1:55 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-22 2:10 ` Bakul Shah
2022-06-22 2:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-06-22 2:19 ` Andrew Hume
2022-06-22 2:58 ` Rob Pike
2022-06-22 3:09 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-22 2:16 ` Andrew Hume
2022-06-22 2:55 ` Brad Spencer
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