11 Nov
2025
11 Nov
'25
7:50 p.m.
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:54:17 -0800
From: Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-11-11 at 14:56 -0500, Paul Koning via
cctalk wrote:
>
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983 and
> https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovere…
Which one of the Unix developers said "Version 7
was an improvement on all of
its successors?"
None of them
The original quote is from the late Mark Crispin, who noted on the Unix-Haters
ARPANET mailing list more than 30 years ago
TOPS-20: A great improvement on its successors.
Rich