Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > A philosophical question: O.T. or not O.T? > > I've been amusing myself recently with an old machine on which I've > installed Version 7 Unix, ported to the x386 architecture. (System III was > the latest thing when I started, but there was still a lot of Version 7 > around.) > > The question is, can this activity be considered an appropriate topic for > discussion in a LUG forum, given that it's a direct ancestor of Linux and > the code is now in the public domain? > > Chris. > Not OT IMOSHO
I cut my teath on V7 and SYSIII. Wonderful kernels. V7 64K and a about 80K for the 68000 SYSIII. Named Pipes with atomic I/O. Broken string libraries. People just starting to wake up to pointer != longs/ints. 17 competing versions of Unix. X/Open trying to standardize. RichardS FSF and GNU. No GUI's between you and the machine. It still leaves me wondering why we can't build a kernel that < 1M Hell, I even had a BSDI 4.4 install (386) that booted of a floppy and installed on a 2G disk. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
