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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lonn,

On Thursday 10 November 2005 19:50, Lonn Dugan wrote:
> Since earliest days of Unix -- vi was/is a screen editor; ed, a line
> at a time tool. (see edlin in earliest PC DOS) Wouldn't you love to
> have earliest edition of Brian W. Kernighan/Rob Pike "The Unix
> Programming Environment" or Brian W. Kernighan/Dennis M. Ritchie "The
> C Programming Language"

Who says I don't? I've even got a copy of the University of New South 
Wales annotated version 6 kernel sources!! I doubt there's many of them 
floating around any more.


> Somewhere around here is a Ken Thompson masterpiece - and to clear up
> an earlier item: Ken Thompson, in 1969, began writing the Unix kernel
> (a small general purpose time sharing-system) on  salvaged DEC PDP-7
> store room junk. By 1970, C development was started on a PDP-11, and
> by 1973, the kernel had been rewritten in C by Dennis M. Ritchie and
> Ken Thompson and compiled with Dennis M. Ritchie's C Compiler. In
> 1974 Unix was first licensed to universities "for educational
> purposes."

And the rest, as they say, is history (some of it yet unwritten, of 
course).

And boy, would today's users whine and carp if they had to use version 6 
or 7 Unix.


> Lonn C. Dugan


RRS