Yet Another "where does it fit" question
Markus Leypold
leypold at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Mon Jun 19 18:16:01 AEST 2000
> Delivered-To: leypold at lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:29:13 -0400
> From: Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA at trailing-edge.com>
> Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
>
> Yesterday I asked:
>
> >Two tapes labeled "Vol 1 of 2" and "Vol 2 of 2" and then "2.10.2 SMS
> >Unix". Steven, does this mean you know what's on this and how it's
> >different than the 2.10 and 2.10.1 stuff already in the archive? :-) Terry
> >didn't remember...
>
> Now that I've read the tapes, this is a 1990-ish step halfway between
> 2.10.1 and 2.11, as developed by Steven Schultz (and debugged by
> Terry on his 11/70, judging from the comments.) Is this something
> worthwhile to put in the archive? At the moment, looking at the
> timeline of PDP-11 Unices currently in the archive, we have at the
> "fairly recent" end:
>
> 2.9 from 1983
> 2.9.1BSD from 1983
> 2.10BSD from 1987
> 2.10.1BSD from 1989
> 2.11BSD from the past year
>
> Would it be a worthwhile thing to put 2.10.2 up as an intermediate
> step filling in the ten year gap between 2.10.1 and the current 2.11?
> I'm worried that whenever I find a metric buttload of Unix tapes that my
Hehe. That seems to be a real danger :-)
> proposals of adding everything in them to the archive may just be
> adding too much volume that folks simply aren't interested in.
Hi Tim,
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Seriously: If You ever do not want to put
something in the archive, give it to me. I have the impression one
needs the intermediate versions to be ever able to crosscheck the
transfer of features between the diverse branches.
Regards Markus.
>
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