[TUHS] Isaacson v Unix [really RMS bashing]

[A. P. Garcia]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 9:39 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 7:06 PM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co wrote:
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>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2019, A. P. Garcia wrote:
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>> If not for GNU, Unix would still have been cloned.  Net/2 happened in
>> parallel, did it not?
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> Berkeley actively rewrote most of unix yes. Net/1 was released about the
> same time GNU was getting started. Net/2 and later 4.4 BSD continued this
> trend, where 4.4 was finally a complete system. BSD386 only lagged Linux by
> about a year and had much stronger networking support, but supported fewer
> obscure devices than linux...
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> Warner
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> Ps I know this glosses over a lot, and isn't intended to be pedantic as to
> who got where first. Only they were about the same time... and I'm
> especially glossing over the AT&T suits, etc.
>

It's really hard to say. How would you compile it? Clang didn't come along
until 2007. The Amsterdam Compiler Kit, perhaps?

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