Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:38:25AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > Fascinating. As I'd been in Sun OS, and started doing admin work when it > > became Solaris, I'd missed that bit. A question: did the license agreement > > include payment, or was it just restrictive on distribution? > > In 1990, when I started using ksh88, it was totally commercial. Binaries > were $$$ and source was $$$$. We bought the source and compiled it for > SunOS, Ultrix and various SYSVr[23] machines (one machine was so old it > didn't understand #! and so needed it placed as /bin/sh). But around 1991 1992, the first Solaris-2.x (SunOS-5.1) came out and this included the Korn Shell for no additional costs. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'