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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA
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Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 19:03:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 29 19:03:16 1987
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In article <8495@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>...to current versions of pcc, or to the decade-old quick-and-dirty first-cut
>one from 32V that is still (last I looked) used in 4BSD?

Actually, a reliable source told me that the basis for the PCC shipped with
4BSD was a bootleg copy from inside Bell Labs, not the 32V version.  Last I
looked at an old 4BSD PCC, it looked like it was circa USG 3.0; certainly
some of its bugs dated back to that time.  (Donn Seeley and others have
since put a lot of work into improving the 4BSD PCC.)  Supposedly Berkeley
having bootlegged software had something to do with AT&T being permitted to
distribute code such as "vi" that originated at Berkeley.

The above is somewhat more than a rumor but somewhat less than second-hand.