From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rochkind@basepath.com (Marc Rochkind) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 11:36:26 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] ed.c on Unix v5 In-Reply-To: <20151219161806.GA14625@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20151219161806.GA14625@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: Right. Obviously Doug can supply the details, but I recall that around 1972 or so Dick Haight used to go over from Piscataway to Murray Hill to get a new system, and there would be some sort of indication about whether it was a good day or a bad day to make a tape. --Marc On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:18 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Mark Longridge scripsit: > > > There's no other trace of getpid in v5 as it's not in the v5 manual > > and there's no getpid.s in the disk image. I'm not sure if having > > getpid in v5 is anomalous or not, perhaps you or someone else can > > actually remember as I'm a johnny-come-lately to the party. There's > > even some commands mentioned in the v4 manual that don't exist in the > > v5 disk image. > > The manuals were versioned, but the tapes were not: each tape represents > a snapshot of the research system on that particular day, so what you find > there isn't closely correlated with any manual version. > > -- > John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org > Long-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter, > Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme): > One sentence (two stanzas) / Hexasyllabically > Challenges poets who / Don't have the time. --robison who's at texas > dot net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: