Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:16:01 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <200006190816.KAA24598@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
From: Markus Leypold <leypold@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: SHOPPA@trailing-edge.com
Cc: PUPS@MINNIE.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU
In-reply-to: <000616202913.262000b0@trailing-edge.com> (message from Tim
	Shoppa on Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:29:13 -0400)
Subject: Re: Yet Another "where does it fit" question
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 > Delivered-To: leypold@lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
 > Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:29:13 -0400
 > From: Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA@trailing-edge.com>
 > Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
 > 
 > 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

Hehe. That seems to be a real danger :-)

 > proposals of adding everything in them to the archive may just be
 > adding too much volume that folks simply aren't interested in.


Hi Tim,

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Seriously: If You ever do not want to put
something in the archive, give it to me. I have the impression one
needs the intermediate versions to be ever able to crosscheck the
transfer of features between the diverse branches.


Regards Markus.



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