In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The old Bourne shell is not free software. Therefore only commercial >proprietary systems have it available. You won't find it in a Debian >system for this reason. In fact I know not of any free software based >system that has the Real Thing available. Since only rewritten clones >are available anyone that has taken the time to rewrite the old Bourne >/bin/sh will have taken the time to make it a modern standard >conforming /bin/sh. (However, perhaps someone can prove me wrong.) > >In order to find a Real Thing copy of the Bourne shell you would need >to run on a commercial proprietary system which still has the legacy >executables on the system.
Well, not really. Here ya go: http://ftp.gcu-squad.org/tuhs/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Henry_Spencer_v7/ The original Unix v7 sources for the PDP11. Including 'sh' and 'cc'. There's also a binary distribution floating around on the net, and a PDP11 emulator. I've booted Unix v7 (from 1979!) and recompiled some utilities, talk about retro computing! Ah, at the same site. See http://ftp.gcu-squad.org/tuhs/PDP-11/Emulators/Supnik_2.3/ Anybody want to do a Debian/V7 ? ;) Ofcourse, all this stuff predates posix by at least a decade. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
