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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Leaked patches... v6 to v6.5
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:05:26 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1910011601020.19040@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpaS7BRSCwR1hVGL9VP7dHZSh6RubYhdQsBncsN5vrwOA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Warner Losh wrote:

> Ok. I know there was never a v6.5... officially. But there are several 
> references to that in different bits of the early user group news 
> letters. This refers to v6 plus all the patches that "leaked" out of 
> bell Labs via udel and Lou Katz.

I was once referred to as "Mr Unix V6.5" when I shoehorned as much of V7 
into V6 (with AUSAM mods) as I could, such as XON/XOFF etc.  Those lucky 
buggers at Elec Eng and AGSM had 11/70s, whereas I had to support a number 
of 11/40s etc.

> My question is,  have they survived? The story sure has, but I didn't find
> them in the archive.. 

Sadly, not my version (UNSW/CSU).

-- Dave

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-01  2:38 Warner Losh
2019-10-01  2:54 ` reed
2019-10-01  3:25   ` Clem cole
2019-10-01  5:00     ` Warner Losh
2019-10-01  5:56       ` Warren Toomey
2019-10-01  6:05 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]

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