On 05/27/2017 08:02 PM, Bruce Perens wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Hendrik Boom <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > bash wasn't the original shell. > > > I really did start on Version 6 Unix. I think Version 7 was out by > then, but the NYIT Graphics Lab didn't ever switch their PDP-11s to > it. We did have the Ken Thompson shell. We did not have fsck, we used > icheck, dcheck, ncheck, and clri. Imagine having a routinely used > program that would clear an inode, because it had duplicate blocks in > the free list. So, you needed to actually understand a lot more about > the filesystem to repair it. A detached directory had to be > reconnected by a systems programmer using adb. > > And we ran 4BSD on the first VAX to leave Digital, the one that got > surreptitiously examined in "The Soul of a New Machine". Even on VAX > BSD, the filesystems did not write in the correct order and had no > journal. > > I later ported fsck from 2.8 BSD back to version 6 for that place. A > lot of lost files surfaced overnight, and the operators didn't have to > understand the filesystem any longer. > > Thanks > > Bruce
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