Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Theo de Raadt wrote on Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:08:22AM -0600: > > openbsd.s...@0sg.net wrote: > > [...] > >> Deep down, I'm actually so saddened to see the original, and still > >> performing, UNIX has become so divided first splitting into three > >> *BSD communities, and then further diluted efforts with GNU and the > >> Linux kernel... > >> > >> That's all I was trying to say. > > > That's right, because monopolies always serve the public better! > > And besides, the original Version 7 AT&T UNIX has been more or less > free for several years now, so if you don't like the forks, you are > welcome to run the real thing. > > For your convenience, the OpenBSD project is even providing the > Version 7 manuals online: > > https://man.openbsd.org/UNIX-7/boot.8 > https://man.openbsd.org/?query=.&apropos=1&manpath=UNIX-7 > > In the unlikely case that you lack a PDP-11, i'm sure it will be > easy for you to port it to amd64. After all, most of the system > was written in K&R C, so it should still compile, with some minor > adjustments.
Deep down, I'm actually so saddened to see the original, and still performing, PDP-11 has become so divided first splitting into three incompatible DEC productlines, and then further diluted efforts with Intel and MIPS, and then all the other companies... That's all I was trying to say. Yes, I'm mocking the OP's severe lack of education. Lack of variation and competition always sucks more.
