History of BSD Unix; in particular, 4.2BSD

[Chris Torek]

In article <27596 at oliveb.olivetti.com> lance at Roma.orc.olivetti.com
(Lance Berc) writes:
>... Other than parts of the networking (especially IP subnets)
>4.2 was pretty solid.

Nah.  UUCP would regularly trash your file systems, unless you put
in the firewall.  socket() would crash the machine if given unusual
arguments.  The f77 compiler was largely broken.  Other system calls
could crash or hang the machine.  But subnets did not even exist
when 4.2BSD was released....
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