From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:04:03 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Clem Cole wrote: >    I believe he gave a copy of the sources very early to wnj -- which is how > it ended up in 4.1BSD.  I don't think it was in the original 3.0 or 4.0 > packages as it was not in V5, V6 or V7 either.  I believe it was released in > PWB 2.0 - not sure and Minnie does not seem to have them. Yes, it is in 4.0BSD (the copy I have has it documented in the setup.t from Nov. 15, 1980, fsck.mm from Oct. 15, 1980). It appears to be the same code as in 4.1 also. (But I cannot find 4.0 in Diomidis's git repo. I also don't have the original SCCS data from the early fsck, probably because it got moved and extended in different location.) By the way, I see the .8 manual for it got a Regents copyright placed on it between 4.2 and 4.3 (even though contained lots of original text as in 4.0BSD). The extensive rewrite to the fsck code happening between 4.1 and 4.3. fsck.c split up into main.c and others in August 1981, even though 4.2 a later year still shipped fsck.c and not the new code. (Reminds me I need to listen to video from McKusick about history of ffs again.) "the calm before the storm ... the storm ... the Coast Guard to the rescue" (from the fsck document)