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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next prev parent 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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