TUHS July 2017

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16 discussions

Re: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob')

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Paul Winalski > So when were REs first designed and implemented? I would imagine that > they came about as a way to extend the old '*' and '?' wildcard syntax, > but that is only a guess. I would suspect in the context of editors, not command file-naming. Don't have time to research it, though. Try checking CTSS, early Multics, etc. Noel

7 years

Re: [TUHS] origin of the name 'glob'

by Norman Wilson

Doug McIlroy: One curious fact is that from day one the word hase been pronounced glob, not globe. (By contrast, creat has been variously pronounced cree-at and create.) ===== On the other hand, the UNIX Room pronunciation of `cron' rhymed with bone, not with spawn. Norman Wilson Toronto ON

7 years

Re: [TUHS] origin of the name 'glob'

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Ron Minnich > Why was it called glob? I always wondered. Something about global expressions. I recall reading about this somewhere; I tried looking in the man page: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man7/glob.7 but it didn't go into any detail. I don't know where I could have seen it, alas... Noel

7 years

origin of the name 'glob'

by ron minnich

Why was it called glob? I always wondered.

7 years

DR11-W - anyone need one?

by Arthur Krewat

Probably no one here wants it, but I have a DR11-W UNIBUS board: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/unibus/DR11W_UsersMan.pdf It's basically a 16-bit DMA interface that can actually do 500Kw per second (woo hoo! 1MB/sec!) to another DR11-W Anyone need it? Want it? Figured I'd try here first, in case we had some historic UNIX people that were still running a UNIBUS PDP-11 (or VAX). No takers in a few weeks, I'll try the museums next. thanks art k.

7 years

Re: [TUHS] DR11-W - anyone need one?

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Toby Thain > Are we to infer that neither Noel and Clem are "good homes"? Well, I said something like 'I don't have an immediate need for it, but I'd be happy to take it', so I guess the question is 'does someone have an actual, immediate use for it' (which I don't)? Noel

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