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From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:40:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c471afe4-aacb-e3c7-4ad8-0ebf8eb2b8a2@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FFAB7129-8C93-4B1D-A588-D8800ABF5179@berwynlodge.com>

On 1/10/17 11:32 AM, Berny Goodheart wrote:
> 
>> On 10 Jan 2017, at 16:24, Joerg Schilling <schily at schily.net> wrote:
>>
>> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 03:12:19PM +0000, Berny Goodheart wrote:
>>>> From SunOS:
>>>> /proc
>>>
>>> Pretty sure /proc was not a SunOS thing.
>>
>> and I believe that Roger Faulkner did come from AT&T
> 
> Yes. And I should know this as I communicated and met with him on several occasions when I was developing /proc for Janus (Linux binary emulation) on Solaris x86.
> So, I was defo wrong on this. 


/proc was done by Roger at AT&T (maybe USL). I recall him telling me that
he was not the original author though and that it came from PWB.

The original implementation was done by Tom Killian for 8th Edition. I
think Roger used that as inspiration, not sure about the code.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10 15:12 Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 16:03 ` arnold
2017-01-10 16:20 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 16:24   ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:32     ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 16:40       ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2017-01-10 16:41       ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:34   ` Clem cole
2017-01-10 16:38     ` Chet Ramey
2017-01-10 16:57   ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 17:10     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 17:47   ` Warner Losh
2017-01-10 18:28     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 18:33       ` Warner Losh
2017-01-10 18:42         ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 19:21           ` Clem cole
2017-01-10 19:41             ` Clem cole
2017-01-11 21:03             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-11 20:56   ` Dan Cross
2017-01-11 22:57     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-11 23:06       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11 23:52         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-11 23:57           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-12  0:07             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-12  1:58               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-12 10:39                 ` Joerg Schilling
     [not found] ` <1154c8d8-2051-455e-a3f2-45415d901232.maildroid@localhost>
2017-01-10 16:34   ` Berny Goodheart
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-01-11 18:07 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-11 19:37 ` Charles Anthony
2017-01-10 21:26 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-10 15:38 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-04  2:41 Larry McVoy
2017-01-04  3:00 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04  3:23   ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04  3:35     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 12:24       ` Ed Carp
2017-01-04 16:17       ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 16:31         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 16:34           ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 16:57             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:06               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:11                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:15                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:40                     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:42                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:48                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:57                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:24                             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 18:30                               ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 18:25                             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:32                           ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:46                             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-05 11:18                               ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-06  2:09                                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-06  3:07                                   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-06 17:38                                   ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 17:36               ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 17:41                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 16:46           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:02             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:10               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:39                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:52                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:23                     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:27                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:29                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:44                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 11:50                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-06  2:02                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-09 13:40                             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-09 17:48                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10  3:58                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10  4:16                                 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-08  1:37                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  2:26                 ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-04 18:56       ` Nevin Liber
2017-01-04 19:05         ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 20:00         ` Clem Cole
2017-01-04 21:20         ` Brad Spencer
2017-01-04 21:57           ` William Pechter
2017-01-04 21:57           ` William Pechter
2017-01-05  0:36       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-05  0:43         ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  0:50           ` William Pechter
2017-01-05  1:01             ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  3:00               ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-05  3:13                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  8:12                   ` Andy Kosela
2017-01-05 16:23                     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 16:31                       ` Clem Cole

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