On 05/27/2017 08:02 PM, Bruce Perens wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???
> <mailto:hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>> wrote:
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>     bash wasn't the original shell. 

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> I really did start on Version 6 Unix. I think Version 7 was out by
> then, but the NYIT Graphics Lab didn't ever switch their PDP-11s to
> it. We did have the Ken Thompson shell. We did not have fsck, we used
> icheck, dcheck, ncheck, and clri. Imagine having a routinely used
> program that would clear an inode, because it had duplicate blocks in
> the free list. So, you needed to actually understand a lot more about
> the filesystem to repair it. A detached directory had to be
> reconnected by a systems programmer using adb.
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> And we ran 4BSD on the first VAX to leave Digital, the one that got
> surreptitiously examined in "The Soul of a New Machine". Even on VAX
> BSD, the filesystems did not write in the correct order and had no
> journal.
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> I later ported fsck from 2.8 BSD back to version 6 for that place. A
> lot of lost files surfaced overnight, and the operators didn't have to
> understand the filesystem any longer.
>

>     Thanks

>

>     Bruce

Can you not enjoy the delicious sarcasm of this thread!

:)

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