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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!news.sgi.com!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.cs.ucla.edu!twinsun!not-for-mail From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:09:45 -0800 Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA Lines: 11 Message-ID: <56h4vp$2ft$1@light.twinsun.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <5604qs$1l7@web.nmti.com> <328A0685.425A@ccm.hf.intel.com> <56fvgf$fv9@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26432 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1504 alt.folklore.computers:124615 peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > 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"... I remember "sed" being on the V6 PDP-11/45s at UCLA in the late 1970s. (I noted it because sed's author Lee McMahon and I had been fellow students at Rice in the early 1970s.) I suppose it could have been an update to V6, as opposed to the original V6 -- or perhaps it was lifted from V7 by the UCLA sysadmins. V6 was sort of a moving target, after all.