From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 21:47:28 +0800 Subject: [TUHS] Ninth Edition incomplete? In-Reply-To: <201704011338.v31Dcxh3021120@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201704011338.v31Dcxh3021120@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: I find it striking that v9 is missing stuff like more or less.. I get the feeling that it really was meant to overlay a Tahoe tree, or general UNIX like functionality was not needed on this SUN-3 version of research v9 On April 1, 2017 9:38:59 PM GMT+08:00, Doug McIlroy wrote: >> Does someone have a more complete distribution of the Ninth Edition >From the README and file dates, it is clear that what tuhs has had >evolved considerably from the Research system described in the >v9 manual. It had been ported to Sun and outfitted with X11. Some >lacunae are attributable to the absence of /bin shell scripts; >many things were apparently pruned as being of no interest to >the installation at hand. >It should be borne in mind that there never was such a thing >as a "distribution" of v8, v9, or v10. The manuals described >the Research computing environment, not a package prepared >for shipment. Responsibility for the latter had been taken >over by the Unix Support Group. >It would be interesting to have a precis of the provenance >of the system on view. > >Doug -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: