From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham)
Subject: [TUHS] Early UNIX file permission oddity
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:39:17 -1000 (HST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0805211138070.16752@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521110851.GG14184@mercury.ccil.org>
> It's important to remember that 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ... represent editions of
> the *manual*, and that there is no guarantee that any particular
> snapshot of the system corresponds exactly to what was in any particular
> manual edition. Research Unix (as it was later called retrospectively)
> was right up to the end a continuously evolving system, and the whole
> concept of releases simply did not exist for it.
I thought there were distinct releases for 5th and 6th (and 7th?)
edition where the manuals, sources and binaries were all collected
in a consistent snapshot and released as a unit.
> John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 4:32 Warren Toomey
2008-05-21 6:15 ` Wilko Bulte
2008-05-21 11:08 ` John Cowan
2008-05-21 11:20 ` Warren Toomey
2008-05-21 11:50 ` John Cowan
2008-05-21 21:39 ` Tim Newsham [this message]
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