From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 13639 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2022 00:35:34 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 18 Jun 2022 00:35:34 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9EFD40CDF; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:35:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-wr1-x434.google.com (mail-wr1-x434.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::434]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 836BA408ED for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:35:24 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-wr1-x434.google.com with SMTP id n1so7293747wrg.12 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:35:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dartmouth.edu; s=google1; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=+9o0zNKNH9T8gJ7USG7SrvVTwqJ+IcipZWKhL45gyoE=; b=vQ5R7tlj4eHMc3ae0Ewe3jsqxlj+PQdOHj0Yhpjq2kMas/xvvgTsEC8kWYzZUc91yj Myi2aCVMnaNsue2PoUvc6m+0QpO/W339FK2RUlJr4EaQa1jpa530EiFtqOrCWk+9XBrl xOGbHdQn9nuayUXX9v63o8ldhwDGnzErDMNAyxhyBw5468u6IQVN49MSDrQBsg17AASs jU4DIB8yQfKGsc5ss0OPgPpMyJAIIjhZC8SZg0+PqWpOuJilu0rJVKBd+UrH7dFnW41A NWtxXi5QM+GDsn+vbCvX/4UaEhja9pP0R4w3+vLQN4Sp4LfFoFye1wmpjIk7axV6emqr DERg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=+9o0zNKNH9T8gJ7USG7SrvVTwqJ+IcipZWKhL45gyoE=; b=36w4cBkCD/tYR1eiPslCN9BAUhXutAj809ybJ4w0lvWc3LFngSIbjQzb73Fuog2MRL LDBhs7swvXiG2oGOtjh//NCIBAsnE8l7w2SMAueL5Lf+QaiaDsZDIvpGQAfFqfZ3m9on Loq1PYckMHoMQVp7GxQJsOi3Pl5JYF7qSWyd5PiuFnnd1yMN/tulDwv7keN9qSik5q4H SfFMmBqaun5M7+USQPeJH5ELCOZ9MnPggd15kW/qi9OQkBQLTl/Ihem4pe2uCbQd3Zh4 Dh+JI6bAYy7A3Jvb8PjAm38lVXJfniS9uneYBh8mIdA5ark9tel1w6vxPwstVQTfYYK9 Hvsw== X-Gm-Message-State: AJIora9fHq3uOMMJAsXEIlwU/k7z5sQDr6XgD/ZbUVb8Rb/ceLkcv4Dv g5YEwjjmxk/ti+8t06eezaZgQhI0cgSGJL6OtGHtIKRH0+xY2Q== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGRyM1sIxQZL+Y0O+g/8Sc8d6YseFpiZZSWmy4bF7pa8sMSjbYGFOi7nnf51RqCrCgdi7gwp8fqSK5mwxIfQn7MFajA= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:64c2:0:b0:20f:dc21:e658 with SMTP id f2-20020a5d64c2000000b0020fdc21e658mr11980717wri.508.1655512522643; Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:35:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Douglas McIlroy Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:35:06 -0400 Message-ID: To: TUHS main list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID-Hash: WRQ42JKAAPUGPVEILTMFWGWHW53OWSZO X-Message-ID-Hash: WRQ42JKAAPUGPVEILTMFWGWHW53OWSZO X-MailFrom: douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: forgotten versions List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: > 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. 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