Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:29:13 -0400
From: Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA@trailing-edge.com>
To: PUPS@MINNIE.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU
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Subject: Re: Yet Another "where does it fit" question
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Yesterday I asked:

>Two tapes labeled "Vol 1 of 2" and "Vol 2 of 2" and then "2.10.2 SMS
>Unix".  Steven, does this mean you know what's on this and how it's
>different than the 2.10 and 2.10.1 stuff already in the archive? :-)  Terry
>didn't remember...

Now that I've read the tapes, this is a 1990-ish step halfway between
2.10.1 and 2.11, as developed by Steven Schultz (and debugged by
Terry on his 11/70, judging from the comments.)  Is this something
worthwhile to put in the archive?  At the moment, looking at the
timeline of PDP-11 Unices currently in the archive, we have at the
"fairly recent" end:

2.9 from 1983
2.9.1BSD from 1983
2.10BSD from 1987
2.10.1BSD from 1989
2.11BSD from the past year

Would it be a worthwhile thing to put 2.10.2 up as an intermediate
step filling in the ten year gap between 2.10.1 and the current 2.11?
I'm worried that whenever I find a metric buttload of Unix tapes that my
proposals of adding everything in them to the archive may just be
adding too much volume that folks simply aren't interested in.

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