[TUHS] forgotten versions

Diomidis Spinellis dds at aueb.gr
Fri Jun 17 17:20:59 AEST 2022


It is indeed problematic that the Unix history repository is missing the 
Research Editions.  At the time I created it, the source code of the 
Research Unix Eighth and Ninth Editions wasn't openly available.  I'm 
now discussing with another member of this list for a pull request to 
add them.  Incorporating them properly isn't trivial, because various 
mappings are needed to establish authorship information and to allow 
git-blame to work across snapshots of moved files.

Diomidis - https://www.spinellis.gr/

On 17-Jun-22 2:06, Rob Pike wrote:
> Excited as I was to see this history of Unix code in a single repository:
> 
> https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo 
> <https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo>
> 
> it continues the long-standing tradition of ignoring all the work done 
> at Bell Labs after v7. I consider v8 v9 v10 to be worth of attention, 
> even influential, but to hear this list talk about it - or discussions 
> just about anywhere else - you'd think they never existed. 


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