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Re: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 36, Issue 21

by Steve Simon

re: learning unix i started using Mike Lesk’s learn(1). -Steve

6 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] man-page style

by Doug McIlroy

Sorry about the recent post. It may seem peripherally connected to tuhs, but it got there due to overtrained fingers (or overaged mind). It was intended for another list. Doug

6 years, 6 months

Request for the story: Unix on the Cray 1 at Bell Labs

by arnold＠skeeve.com

Hi All. In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs&feature=youtu.be Rob Pike mentions that DMR and Norman Wilson ported Unix to the Cray 1 and that it was not straightforward. This sounds interesting. Norman: would you be kind enough to elaborate on this? Thanks, Arnold

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Re: [TUHS] Article on the history of cat(1)

by Dave Horsfall

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Warren Toomey wrote: >> Hell, I wish I still had that "CSU Tape"; it was Edition 6 with as much >> of Edition 7 (and AUSAM) that I could shoe-horn in, such as XON/XOFF >> for the TTY driver. I was known as "Mr Unix 6-1/2" at the time... > > Definitely look at the UNSW tapes I have: > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=AUSAM > and https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UNSW/ > in case any of these are what you are looking for. I think I did before, but I confess I didn't spend much time on it. My pride and joy was certainly the rewritten ei.c driver (implementing the 200-UT batch protocol), and the clever workaround to an egregious KRONOS bug where it would get stuck in a POLL/REJECT loop (I merely sent a dummy command viz "Q,I" -- discarding the response -- because KRONOS was expecting a command instead of the correct REJECT being nothing to send from the batch emulator). At the time, Unix got blamed because the smaller non-Unix /40s (running a standalone program) worked fine for some reason; my guess is that it implemented the broken protocol somehow. -- Dave

6 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] Article on the history of cat(1)

by Norman Wilson

Rob: I rewrote cat to use just read and write, as nature intended. I don't recall if my version is in any of v8 v9 v10 ... ==== It is. It was /bin/cat when I arrived at Murray Hill in 1984. I remember being delighted with the elegant way to get rid of a flag I had never really liked either. I never knew Dennis had dragged his heels at it. It was (to me) so obviously the right answer that I never asked! Norman Wilson Toronto ON

6 years, 6 months

Article on the history of cat(1)

by Warren Toomey

All, I just saw this link to an article on the history of cat(1): https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html Cheers, Warren

6 years, 6 months

cute baby pictures and amazing stories

by Pete Wright

really appreciate videos of talks like this as someone who wasn't lucky enough to be around to experience this in person but benefits from the things your generation built for us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs&feature=youtu.be thanks rob! -pete -- Pete Wright pete(a)nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA

6 years, 6 months

Weird e-mail delays on TUHS

by Warren Toomey

All, for a while now there have been some weird multi-hour long delays between e-mail arriving at TUHS and being forwarded on. I've just removed a pile of queued messages which I think were causing mailman to have palpitations. If you posted something on TUHS in the last few hours, could you re-send it. Apologies for this. Thanks, Warren

6 years, 6 months

Rob Pike's Latest Unix Video

by Warren Toomey

[from @rob_pike on twitter]: Something for the weekend: A talk I gave at the office recently about my personal history with Unix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs&feature=youtu.be&t=226 Cheers, Warren

6 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] Directory services in early Unix networks?

by Richard Tobin

> SunOS 4 definitely had YP. SunOS 2.0 had YP. -- Richard -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

6 years, 6 months

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