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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re:  Warner's Early Unix Presentation]
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:39:26 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgw9zVVo-QzpA3Paminq-YrAEO89nUBKAw4f6-TrxvAffg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202002101546.01AFkOSc001266@freefriends.org>

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Readline and job control were less compelling when you had multiple command
windows of editable typescript, which we all had with the Blit.

-rob


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 2:46 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Geoff Collyer wrote a nice paper about experiences porting the 9th
> Edition
> > shell to SunOS 3 on the 68k some years ago.
> > http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/sh.tour.pdf
> >
> > There is a copy of source code on his personal web page:
> > http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/
> >
> > I wonder if any of the 8th edition shell changes you mentioned survived
> in
> > that code?
>
> It took less than 10 minutes to get it to compile under Linux. 'whatis'
> is there, although the pretty printing of function code leaves
> much to be desired.
>
> Lacking is both readline and job control.
>
> Arnold
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-10 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 22:25 [TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation Warren Toomey
2020-02-07 23:57 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08  0:43   ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-08  3:37     ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 15:15   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 21:50     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 22:29       ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 22:54         ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:02           ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:11             ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:13               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:21               ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-08 23:26                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:28                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:26               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:29                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:35                   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 23:36                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:54                     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-09  0:11                       ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-09  0:19                   ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-08 22:31       ` Richard Salz
2020-02-10 13:18       ` Tony Finch
2020-02-10 15:05       ` Dan Cross
2020-02-10 15:46         ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] arnold
2020-02-10 18:39           ` Rob Pike [this message]
2020-02-10 18:59             ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-10 19:58             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-02-10 20:11               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-11  9:33             ` arnold
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Noel Hunt
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11  9:59                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:05                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-11 17:18                     ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-11 18:22                     ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-16 21:34                       ` Wesley Parish
2020-02-11 18:26                     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-11 23:56                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-12  0:12                         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-12  1:03                           ` [TUHS] V9 shell Warren Toomey
2020-02-12  5:54                           ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:36                   ` Dan Cross
2020-02-11 18:35                   ` Christopher Browne
2020-02-11 18:54                     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 21:36                     ` Harald Arnesen
2020-02-11  3:32 Doug McIlroy
2020-02-11  3:53 ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-11 11:24   ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-02-11 15:51     ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-11  4:46 ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-11  5:12   ` Steve Nickolas
2020-02-11  6:33 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11  9:40 ` arnold
2020-02-11 15:06   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-11 14:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-02-11 15:29   ` Mike Markowski
2020-02-11 16:03   ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-11 17:12     ` Clem Cole
2020-02-11 17:17     ` Steve Nickolas
2020-02-11 17:21 ` Dan Cross

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