From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A2B2203E for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:00:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA6742852; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:59:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (unknown [110.141.193.233]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DCEB42848 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:59:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 45IKxodp022885 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:59:50 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 45IKxnwq022882 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:59:50 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:59:49 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID-Hash: YFG6WCAUC24PAOY37Z44C5T33QDZXEPF X-Message-ID-Hash: YFG6WCAUC24PAOY37Z44C5T33QDZXEPF X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: ACM Software System Award to Andrew S. Tanenbaum for MINIX List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Tue, 18 Jun 2024, segaloco via TUHS wrote: > I have Andy Tanenbaum to thank in part for my interest in turning up > UNIX 4.0 information due to the quote: > > "Whatever happened to System IV is one of the great unsolved mysteries > of computer science." > > From Modern Operating Systems. I took this as an impudent challenge and > well here I am. Well, don't keep us in suspense; what happened to SysIV? Not that I'm a fan of either SysIII or SysV... -- Dave