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Re: The far past of GCC

From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus dot com>
To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 07:45:04 -0500
Subject: Re: The far past of GCC
References: <20191228085310.B665F4704C53@snark.thyrsus.com> <60ca7d2f39e3ab56b670fd30211fdc61e44df488.camel@redhat.com>
Reply-to: esr at thyrsus dot com

Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>:
> I believe RCS was initially used circa 1992 on the FSF machine which
> held the canonical GCC sources.

That year sounds right - it's when I wrote the original vcs.el for Emacs
and a lot of Emacs users who hadn't been usiing version control started to.

Doesn't give us a Subversion revision, though.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

References:
- The far past of GCC
  - From: Eric S. Raymond
- Re: The far past of GCC
  - From: Jeff Law

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