From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dugo@xs4all.nl (Jacob Goense) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:23:53 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Thompson at Berkeley on an 11/70 In-Reply-To: <201504101837.t3AIbPcI011217@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> References: <201504101837.t3AIbPcI011217@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> Message-ID: On 2015-04-10 20:37, Doug McIlroy wrote: > To tell whether Ken installed v6 or a copy of his home > system, look at /usr/dict/words. On the home system > that file is the wordlist from Webster's Collegiate > Dictionary, 7th edition, licensed for Bell Labs use > only. On distribution systems we substituted the wordlist > for "spell". The latter list contains many more proper > names, acronyms, etc than the dictionary did, in > particular names that appear in Unix documentation > such as Ritchie, Kernighan, and McIlroy. It also lacks > lots of trivially derivable words like "organizationally". > > If you do have the Webster file rather than the spell > file, please don't propagate it. Good to know, I doubt I'll ever run into a dump of a 1975 CORY though. For now I assume Thompson erred on the safe side and brought his home system as reference material rather than install media. /Jacob