[TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 07:03:23 AEST 2017


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Clem cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> Correct- that was the path as I know it.  i.e.  ITS gave Unix more and job
> control.
>
>
> Which is my point.    When some one starts pontificating about how
> SYS/BSD/Linux this that or the other thing - often the idea came
> elsewhere.   Wide distribution and use was supplied by the XXX Channel but
> there were many many fathers and mothers


To that end, someone once suggested to me that the inspiration for the
swapping implementation in early Unix came fro MTS, but I found that
dubious; the dates just don't line up.

        - Dan C.
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