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