Message-ID: <C85E19E9-FCBE-453F-B98F-360E4689B86F@ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2007-12-26T22:56:45Z
From: Roger Koenker
Subject: Reminiscing on 20 years using S
In-Reply-To: <07E228A5BE53C24CAD490193A7381BBBDB7058@LP-EXCHVS07.CO.IHC.COM>
On Dec 26, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Greg Snow wrote:
>
> I realized earlier this year (2007) that it was in 1987 that I first
> started using an early version of S (it was ported to VMS and was
> called
> success). That means that I have been using some variant of S (to
> various degrees) for over 20 years now (I don't feel that old).
>
Boxing day somehow seems appropriate for this thread. R.I.P. to all
those old boxes
of yesteryore and the software that ran on them -- and yet there is
always a residual archaeological curiosity.
I discovered recently that the MIT athena network contains a circa
1989 version
of S: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/Sdev/S/ which
made me wonder
whether there was any likelihood that one could recreate "S Thu Dec 7
16:49:47 EST 1989".
Curiosity is one thing, time to dig through the layers of ancient
civilizations is quite another.
But if anyone would like to offer a (preferably educated) guess about
the feasibility of such a project, like I said, I would be curious.
url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker
email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics
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