From: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed)
Subject: [TUHS] Oldest Unix source code still in modern systems
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:00:12 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1205210950390.4116@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120521051801.GA2210@minnie.tuhs.org>
On Mon, 21 May 2012, Warren Toomey wrote:
> I was doing a trawl of related Unix source trees, and found that some early
> C code from around 2nd Edition Unix is still in OpenSolaris today:
>
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2/cmd/if.c
>
> Choose: Compare this file to OpenSolaris_b135/cmd/fmli/sys/test.c
> and then click on the Side Scroll or the Printable button.
>
> There's about 15 lines of code in common between the 2 files.
Cool. I recently did the same thing for BSD.
http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2012/05/Features181.html
Some examples of code that is mostly the same since the first Berkeley
distribution are: colcrt, expand, mkstr, and soelim. But a few others
still have some of the original ~1976-1977 code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-21 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 5:18 Warren Toomey
2012-05-21 15:00 ` Jeremy C. Reed [this message]
2012-05-21 15:43 ` Armando Stettner
2012-05-21 16:15 ` Michael Davidson
2012-05-22 7:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-05-21 7:45 arnold
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