> On Saturday, February 14, 1998 7:20 AM, CyberPeasant 
> [SMTP:listread@bedford.net] wrote:
> think BSD systems have "always" (perhaps someone can point out when this was 
> not true) picked the interpreter in the kernel.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong (this was nearly 10 years ago now) and 
> thankfully I haven't seen SysVr2 for a very long time (it was awful) ;-)
> 
You're probably right about this. It just does not stand to reason though.
Well, what does?  :) 

I had some rather grim experiences with the Microport version of SVR2.
(No company ever deserved bankruptcy more.) This was for 286; it can
be said in its favor that it worked (sort of). It came with an
absolutely hideous compiler. (An un-enhanced version of pcc). Ick.

Dave
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