[TUHS] First Unix-like OSes not derived from AT&T code?

Adam Thornton athornton at gmail.com
Sun May 15 15:36:41 AEST 2022



> On May 14, 2022, at 5:48 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 07:46:33PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 11, 2022, at 10:35 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>> As a side effort from making SunOS POSIX compliant,
>> 
>> As good a time as any to thank you for this.  Pity you couldn't convince them to put the POSIX sh in /bin/sh and the old sh in /usr/compat or some such, rather than having POSIX only in /usr/xpg4.
> 
> I was pretty green, it was my 3rd job after grad school.  I didn't have
> pull at the time, I was a nobody who had to prove himself.

What are you talking about?  That wasn't a long time ago.  It was only...

...

...aw crap.

Adam


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