[TUHS] Unix quix

[Clem Cole]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 9:45 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> MERT absolutely predates PWB 1.2. MERT has papers starting in 1975 while
> pwb 1.2  is 1978 or 1979.
>
I can not say, I have any knowledge so I would trust Rob's sources, but ...
I also what I would have thought MERT predates PWB.  Heinz, are you able to
illuminate any of these details?



> MERT was V4 while releases of PWB were V6 based.
>
I can verify and agree with the later of PWB 1.x being 6th edition, but the
MERT tidbit is interesting/thought-provoking. I frankly would have
expected the MERT folks to have started with something closer to 5th and
then tracked any significant differences as possible.
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