From: bdc@world.std.com (Brian D Chase)
Subject: When did the `dc' command first appear?
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:34:40 -0700 [thread overview]
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Just a quick question. Was the `dc' command introduced with one of the
BSD releases or did it exist in an earlier version of Unix like the 6th or
7th Edition?
-brian.
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Brian Chase asked:
> Just a quick question. Was the `dc' command introduced with one of the
> BSD releases or did it exist in an earlier version of Unix like the 6th or
> 7th Edition?
I see it on the System III and Version 7 systems. I don't see it in V6 distro
however.
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Brian D. Chase writes,
> Just a quick question. Was the `dc' command introduced with one of the
> BSD releases or did it exist in an earlier version of Unix like the 6th or
> 7th Edition?
It appears in the First Edition manual, and according to A Quarter
Century of Unix, it's even older than that. "There was also a version
of dc, desk calculator, a very very early program. That was actually
the first program that ran on the PDP-11. It ran standalone before
there was an operating system." (p. 35)
eric
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Subject: Re: When did the `dc' command first appear?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.04.9910250931400.1849-100000 at world.std.com> from Brian D Chase at "Oct 25, 1999 09:34:40 am"
From: Mark Green <mark@cs.ualberta.ca>
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> Just a quick question. Was the `dc' command introduced with one of the
> BSD releases or did it exist in an earlier version of Unix like the 6th or
> 7th Edition?
>
I think it was in 6th, but thats straining my memory a bit.
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