[TUHS] A few comments on porting the Bourne shell

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2023, 12:11 AM Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 10:25:49PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > And at 5:18 he says he had a vax lab with three vaxen and the Lab's vax
> > port didn't have virtual memory. Bill Joy with 3BSD which had virtual
> > memory. They installed it on the vaxen because they were hitting physical
> > memory limits for some of their programs....
> >
> > This suggests that the 32V in the TUHS archive is a later one than this
> > early port. 3BSD is listed as being released end of 1979...
>
> It was 4BSD and 1980 according to QCU:
>
> "In 1980 it was Bill Joy who flew to New Jersey and, together with Steve
> Bourne, put 4BSD up in Bell Labs. "We did it overnight," Joy told me.
> "We decided to do it about 9 p.m.; people showed up in the morning and a
> new os was running. It was pretty amazing."
>

He said 3BSD in the video.... Interesting...

Warner

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