[TUHS] UNIX System V Release 2.2 gdts Vax-780

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Fri Mar 17 11:08:00 AEST 2023


On Thu, 16 Mar 2023, Charles H. Sauer (he/him) wrote:

> To fill in the Dell details that Clem cites, this is what I see when I bring 
> up Dell SVR4:
>
>  X/Open XPG3 BASE
>
>  Copyright (c) 1989, 1998, 1991, 1992, 1993 DELL Computer Corp.
>  Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 AT&T
>  Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.
>  Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp.
>  Copyright (c) 1991 Young Minds, Inc.
>  Copyright (c) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 Sun Microsystems.
>  Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989 Lachman Associates,  Inc. (LAI)
>  Copyright (c) 1989 Western Digital.
>  Copyright (c) 1990, Renaissance GRX, Inc.
>  Copyright (c) 1991,1992 Appian Technology Inc.
>  Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Intel Corp.
>  All Rights Reserved

<snip>

> The late Jeremy Chatfield is probably the person who figured out what we 
> needed to say at startup in this regard. I have guesses about reasons for 
> most of those 11 copyright lines and might be able to be definitive if I 
> spent enough time with the source. There is at least one more line that I 
> would have thought would be needed, but given Jeremy's general thoroughness, 
> I assume he got this right.
>
> Charlie

I'm surprised, given I *know* the code's in there, that the Regents of the 
University of California aren't mentioned.

Then again...

-uso.


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