Author: Jim Kissel Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] old gits/old school: was Recurrent Hardware Problem
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.
