From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 3684 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2023 07:12:07 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 1 Jan 2023 07:12:07 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5D142436; Sun, 1 Jan 2023 17:11:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lechuck.jsg.id.au (jsg.id.au [193.114.144.202]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69B3D42435 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2023 17:11:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: from largo.jsg.id.au (largo.jsg.id.au [192.168.1.43]) by lechuck.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id 298084b2 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Sun, 1 Jan 2023 18:11:38 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost (largo.jsg.id.au [local]) by largo.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 32f675fb; Sun, 1 Jan 2023 18:11:37 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 18:11:37 +1100 From: Jonathan Gray To: Warner Losh Message-ID: References: <52FB6638-AEFF-4A4F-8C2E-32089D577BA0@planet.nl> <18521483-A73C-4B5F-A76A-6098BD93E9BC@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Message-ID-Hash: HRBGERZ2M36Q3WC5HEXA5NPXQ6NQZH74 X-Message-ID-Hash: HRBGERZ2M36Q3WC5HEXA5NPXQ6NQZH74 X-MailFrom: jsg@jsg.id.au X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Paul Ruizendaal , tuhs@tuhs.org, segaloco X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 10:25:49PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > And at 5:18 he says he had a vax lab with three vaxen and the Lab's vax > port didn't have virtual memory. Bill Joy with 3BSD which had virtual > memory. They installed it on the vaxen because they were hitting physical > memory limits for some of their programs.... > > This suggests that the 32V in the TUHS archive is a later one than this > early port. 3BSD is listed as being released end of 1979... It was 4BSD and 1980 according to QCU: "In 1980 it was Bill Joy who flew to New Jersey and, together with Steve Bourne, put 4BSD up in Bell Labs. "We did it overnight," Joy told me. "We decided to do it about 9 p.m.; people showed up in the morning and a new os was running. It was pretty amazing."