From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11/70 SPL (was: Early non-Unix filesystems?)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:43:39 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1603290834110.15730@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160328135040.7CF8D18C0B6@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > That makes sense, and someone forgot to document it...
>
> Or perhaps it was added precisely to get rid of the window, and then
> someone discovered that it could be used to freeze the system, so they
> decided they'd better not document it?
Yeah, I've pretty much concluded that. I'm still wondering how it leaked
out, though.
[...]
> PS: I guess this is more PDP-11ish than UNIXish - apologies for the
> off-topic!
Ah, grasshopper, you do not know that this list's predecessor was PUPS
(PDP-11 Unix Preservation Society)... It was first mentioned over on the
old AUUG list.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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2016-03-28 13:50 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-28 14:32 ` William Pechter
2016-03-28 21:43 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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2016-03-27 11:25 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-27 20:03 ` Dave Horsfall
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2016-03-27 10:05 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 19:59 ` Dave Horsfall
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