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

[Larry McVoy]

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:36:41PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
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> > On May 14, 2022, at 5:48 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 07:46:33PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
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> >>> On May 11, 2022, at 10:35 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> >>> As a side effort from making SunOS POSIX compliant,
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> >> 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.
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> > 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.
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> What are you talking about?  That wasn't a long time ago.  It was only...
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> ...aw crap.

Amen to that.  I turned 60 this year and man, oh, man, that sucked.  I've
mostly been fine with getting older but 60?  Are you kidding me?  I'm 60?
That's the first time a birthday made me feel closer to death.  Yuck.