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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]
Message-ID: <CAK7dMtALWesXWaw6n-oH+5XRK8ayLz2F2ZNAhN3VUFbTCeL_Gw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiUj=3UKmeShUTEX6DNbPKYoOue=k9fsEDYKrRkt2N465Q@mail.gmail.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-18  5:00 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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