Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site bradley.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!bradley!brad From: brad@bradley.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Q: lseek returns long or int? (BSD 4 Message-ID: <400013@bradley.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 10:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: bradley.400013 Posted: Mon Oct 8 10:27:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 07:40:06 EDT References: <119@cybvax0.UUCP> Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #R:cybvax0:-11900:bradley:400013:000:1171 Nf-From: bradley!brad Oct 8 09:27:00 1984 >/**** bradley:net.unix-wizar / utzoo!henry / 6:25 pm Oct 4, 1984 ****/ >> >>This is yet another piece of gratuitous brain-damage brought to you by >> >>the morons at Berkeley... >> >>So tell me, which version of UNIX are you using now? > >Thank you for asking that, you've made my day. I'm using the last true >UNIX ever released: V7. Not a Berklix mislabeled "UNIX Version 7", >mind you, but a real, honest Bell V7. Since nobody has yet found the >cash to buy us something better, utzoo is an 11/44. I'm quite aware that >this has its bad points -- 16-bit address spaces are no fun any more -- >but it does mean that I can run true UNIX. I don't know what I'd do if >they suddenly gave us a VAX... maybe go wail on Research's doorstep until >they slip me a V8 tape just to get rid of me... :-)))) >-- I also ran at one time 'Honest Bell V7', but am now running 2.9BSD, and find that on my 11/44 it runs at least 50% faster, and all my 'Honest Bell V7' programs run plus I have all the stuff from 2.9, like overlays, job control. :-) "2.9 * 50% > 7" Bradley Smith Text Processing/Bradley University {ihnp4,cepu,uiucdcs,noao}!bradley!brad