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Date:      Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:21:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r362420 - head/share/misc
Message-ID:  <202006202221.05KMLlEc002191@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfovKWnq69e9XTtPkz_kQzGmTh_9S-5Y_0cH%2B8bvf0oLwQ@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:13 AM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 04:07:44AM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > > New Revision: 362420
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362420
> > > >
> > > > Log:
> > > >   Correct 1BSD release date.
> > > >
> > > >   The Quarter Century of Unix book said that 1BSD was released March
> > 1979.
> > > >   However, the 1BSD tape image that's on Kirk's historical unix
> > collection
> > > >   has an earlier date.
> > > >
> > > >   It was common practice, at the time, to create a new copy of the tape
> > > >   from the master system
> > >              ^^^^^^
> > > Ouch! :-)
> >
> > Given that this occured AFTER imp made a commit removing master/slave
> > language I find it very ironic.
> >
> > Uh oh, we need to rewire our VCS system so we can correct our
> > political incorrectness in our logs.
> >
> 
> Master copy has a completely different etymology than master slave.
> 
> The only irony here is that you are over-reacting to this.

Very interesting that you reply to me, and not the original poster
on the reaction, that I reacted to.  Bias perhaps?

> Warner
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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