From: Doug McIlroy Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:58:40 -0400 To: tuhs@tuhs.org Subject: Re: [TUHS} Running V8 ... Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > How realistic would the experience be to actually running the system > described in the Unix Programming Environment [v8] if it's actually running > BSD 4.1... Thanks for any insights y'all might have on this. This question bears on a recent thread about favorite flavors of Unix. My favorite flavor is Universal Unix, namely the stuff that just works everywhere. That's essentially what K&P is about. That's also what allowed me to use a giant Cray with no instruction whatsoever. And to do everyday "programmering" on the previously inscrutable Macintosh, thanks to OS X. The advent of non-typewriter input put a damper on Universal Unix. One has to learn something to get started with a novel device. I am impressed, though, by the breadth of Universal Unix that survives behind those disparate facades.