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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!CS.Berkeley.EDU!eric From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD demon? :-) Date: 31 Aug 1993 14:29:27 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project Lines: 14 Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) Distribution: world Message-ID: <25vn87$2qt@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Aug25.193813.4198@deathsquare> <CCC0Jp.CAG@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca> <31241@ksr.com> <9308302323.50@rmkhome.UUCP> Reply-To: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: mastodon.cs.berkeley.edu In article <9308302323.50@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: |> In article <31241@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes: |> >Hah. V7 on the PDP-11/70 was the absolute zenith of computing practice. It's |> >all been downhill since then. |> |> Exactly. Hmmm..... my recollection is that when V7 came out, the chic thing to do was to bemoan how it was all downhill after V6. Now the zenith has moved to V7. With Solaris/SVR4 hitting the streets, I expect to see claims that 4.1BSD was the pinnacle of the practice. And so forth..... eric