[TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems

[Arthur Krewat]

On 3/21/2018 6:18 PM, William Corcoran wrote:
> Given that the comments never made it into the compiled code, there
> was no space reason to omit comments. There must have been another
> reason.

I used to regularly compress sources of various distributions (not UNIX, 
but inn, pine, elm, etc) that I compiled, just to save space.

And that was in the early 90's when I could buy a 1GB SCSI drive for 
$1000. I can't imagine working off of the early hard drives...

ak