Re: [Rd] Source code of early S versions

2016-03-01 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, peter dalgaard wrote: On 29 Feb 2016, at 19:54 , Barry Rowlingson wrote: PS: somehow "historical" would be less unnerving than "archeological" At least I didn't say palaeontological. So John should feel more like stone age than dinosaur? (Some portion of this must

Re: [Rd] Source code of early S versions

2016-03-01 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 29 Feb 2016, at 19:54 , Barry Rowlingson > wrote: > >> PS: somehow "historical" would be less unnerving than "archeological" > > At least I didn't say palaeontological. So John should feel more like stone age than dinosaur? (Some portion of this must be a fortune candidate!) -- Peter

Re: [Rd] Source code of early S versions

2016-02-29 Thread Jari Oksanen
> On 29 Feb 2016, at 20:54 pm, Barry Rowlingson > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:17 PM, John Chambers wrote: >> The Wikipedia statement may be a bit misleading. >> >> S was never open source. Source versions would only have been available >> with a nondisclosure agreement, and relativ

Re: [Rd] Source code of early S versions

2016-02-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:17 PM, John Chambers wrote: > The Wikipedia statement may be a bit misleading. > > S was never open source. Source versions would only have been available with > a nondisclosure agreement, and relatively few copies would have been > distributed in source. There was a

Re: [Rd] Source code of early S versions

2016-02-29 Thread John Chambers
The Wikipedia statement may be a bit misleading. S was never open source. Source versions would only have been available with a nondisclosure agreement, and relatively few copies would have been distributed in source. There was a small but valuable "beta test" network, mainly university stati