[TUHS] SCCS, TeamWare, BitKeeper, and Git

[Marc Rochkind]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 10:49 AM Marc Rochkind <mrochkind at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Incidentally, UNIX had a different language-independent macro processor
> called m6. I think it was created by Doug McIlroy and Andy Hall, and, as I
> recall, that was even before UNIX became widely used. Hall's M6
> implementation was in Fortran, possibly initially for the GE/Honeywell
> machines running at Murray Hill. Even before I'd heard of UNIX and before I
> did SCCS, I got the source from Andy and compiled M6 on our IBM mainframe.
> I'm sure Doug can provide a lot more information about M6. I recall once
> talking to Andy about a minor bug, and he said that he knew about it, had
> talked to Doug about it, and Doug said let it go. (I was just starting out
> at Holmdel and had never met Doug, Andy, or anybody else at Murray Hill. I
> didn't know it, but Ken and Dennis were writing the first version of UNIX
> around that time.)
>

Correction: The version of M6 for UNIX was called M4. Maybe because it was
only 2/3 as complete?

*Doug?*

Marc
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