From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:40:59 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines In-Reply-To: References: <79091EE2-D7F8-4BE2-9422-47C365780367@berwynlodge.com> <20170110162024.GP8099@mcvoy.com> <58750ac6.xDyt5KJHPLKiEQfS%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: On 1/10/17 11:32 AM, Berny Goodheart wrote: > >> On 10 Jan 2017, at 16:24, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> >> Larry McVoy 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/