[TUHS] forgotten versions

Andrew Hume andrew at humeweb.com
Wed Jun 22 12:16:16 AEST 2022


i joined the labs in 1981. during that first year, i worked on S/NET and
did a comparison with data kit (or a direct predecessor).

> On Jun 21, 2022, at 5:13 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 05:56:02PM -0600, Jacob Moody wrote:
>> I recently stumbled across the existence of datakit
>> when going through the plan9foundation source archives.
>> Would be curious to hear more about its involvement
>> with plan9.
> 
> Pretty sure datakit predated Plan 9, didn't Greg Chesson work on that?
> He was my mentor at SGI, my memory is datakit was sort of early on in
> his career and then he did XTP, which nobody knows about but I believe
> is still used by the military.
> 
> Unless the early Bell Labs datakit and the Plan 9 datakit are different
> things.



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