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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 14 Nov 1996 20:30:07 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 13 Message-ID: <56fvgf$fv9@web.nmti.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <5604qs$1l7@web.nmti.com> <328A0685.425A@ccm.hf.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26435 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1506 alt.folklore.computers:124624 In article <328A0685.425A@ccm.hf.intel.com>, Perry Hutchison <perry_hutchison@ccm.hf.intel.com> wrote: > I think you may be off by one version. I distinctly recall > sed being in 6th Edition (and I thereby date myself :-). There was no "sed" on the Computer Center computers at UCB in 1980. It was on the EECS computer. The CC machines ran V6, the EECS machine (Cory) was running V7. It is possible that the CC staff removed "sed"... there were a number of oddball changes in the sommands available there... but unless I can dig up my old V6 manual there's no way I can prove it one way or the other. -- </peter>