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Original BSD history converted from CSRG's SCCS repository to Git (via SVN)

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2015-08-19 · latest 2023-07-09

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  1. …Perl appeared the absolute hotness was the version of Korn shell what later became known as ksh88. https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/tree/master/local/tool...
    comment by chx · 2023-07-09 · in Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed
  2. …to the implementation from Bentley & McIlroy's "engineering a sort function" [1] around 1992. [0]: https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/commit/d3fcf71e0db57cb... [1]: https://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/classes/writing/papers/bentley93engi...
    comment by erk__ · 2023-05-20 · in FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
  3. …BSDs. I believe one of the first BSD versions containing sendmail (by Eric Allman) is this one: https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/blob/bd282c88c1b3c2575... (almost 40 years ago!) Its a little hard to read due to the format, but here's…
    comment by aldrich · 2022-07-14 · in DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland
  4. …and judging by the earliest commit that's available online[0] it was added even before 1980. [0] https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/commit/3effe8f62d3c7b5...
    comment by alisonatwork · 2022-07-01 · in Vim 9.0
  5. Seems this goes back to 1989 :) https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/commit/0e1066151c90a80...
    comment by kh_hk · 2017-02-15 · in GitHub commit search: “remove password”
  6. …of earlier BSD tools. The Rust version AND the GNU whoami.c both look similar to the BSD original https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/blob/master/old/whoami... . Hell, the rust version is clearly a lot closer to the BSD original than to…
    comment by msbarnett · 2016-03-23 · in Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
  7. …I'd guess simulated the yarrow generation. I wasn't able to get it to compile on a modern system. ( https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/tree/master/games/chin... )
    comment by cturner · 2016-03-12 · in What Is the I Ching?
  8. For reference: https://github.com/swetland/xv6/blob/master/kernel/fs.c https://github.com/weiss/original-bsd/blob/master/old/sh/cmd...
    comment by comex · 2015-08-19 · in Brian Kernighan on C [video]