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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!ra!atkinson From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Ran Atkinson) Subject: Re: BSD demon? :-) Message-ID: <CCp9p9.KI@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC References: <9308302323.50@rmkhome.UUCP> <25vn87$2qt@agate.berkeley.edu> <BZS.93Sep1024433@world.std.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 00:07:56 GMT Lines: 17 In article <BZS.93Sep1024433@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: >The nice thing about Unix on PDP-11's, ... [stuff deleted] Another nice thing about Research UNIX v7 on the PDP-11s was that the whole thing was small enough that one person could understand what was going on in most places most of the time. All of the later dialects and versions were large enough that it was pretty unusual for one person to really understand what was going on in most places most of the time. System V r4.2-ES is reportedly a good example of this sort of bloat. Ran atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil